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Title: Challenges and Approaches to Expanding Learning Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Post Primary Education


1
Challenges and Approaches to Expanding Learning
Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa Post Primary
Education
  • PresentersWim Hoppers and Steven Obeegadoo

2
Why PPE?
  • Demand factors Social aspirations/expectations
  • Supply factors Economic and political rationale

3
Why now?
  • The context
  • The EFA thrust mobilization/financing/monitorin
    g
  • Progress towards UPE 80.8m (1999) ? 109.6m
    (2005)
  • Impact on Sec. Ed. 21.4m (1999) ? 33.2m
    (2005)
  • Impact on Tertiary Ed. 2.1m (1999) ? 3.5m
    (2005)
  • Runaway population growth!

4
What next?
  • Do we take charge or
  • do we allow events to take charge?!!

5
Moving beyond primary education
  • What responses have emerged?
  • from primary to expanded basic education
  • extending length of basic education to 9-10 years
    for all
  • expanding scope of basic education
  • integration of education and skills development
  • diversifying pathways of learning for access and
    completion formal / non-formal / open learning /
    distance / faith-based, etc.
  • distinction between basic education and
    post-basic education (PBE)

6
Implications for a new perspective
  • focus on competencies as outcomes of learning
  • range of provisions involving many different
    partners
  • MOE no longer sole provider because of
    decentralisation and privatisation more focus on
    coordination, support, supervision and quality
    control
  • major concern for vertical and horizontal
    articulation the ladders and bridges
  • increased use of remedial and second chance
    education
  • more emphasis on equivalence, validation of
    learning, credit transfers, and qualifications
    frameworks

7
Guiding concepts and principles
  • recognition of equity of access and of outcomes
  • combining PPE agenda with completing unfinished
    business of UPE
  • recognition of diversity and complexity in the
    education system
  • moving towards holistic integrative approach to
    PPE development
  • more balancing of quantity with quality and
    relevance
  • quality less in academic terms, and more in
    terms of socio-economic relevance
  • emphasis on equity and cost-effectiveness
  • balancing private demand with economic
    opportunities

8
Challenges for Governance in PPE
  • Grounding PPE expansion in African realities???
  • Education economics a powerful mix!
  • Ministries for Education and Training- how many
    do we need?
  • Priority to UPE v/s Focus on UBE attention to
    TVET HE?
  • Can the state go it alone?
  • Quantity or Quality which comes first?
  • Build consensus carry through reformswhat does
    it take?
  • Institutional development capacity building for
    sustainability.but how?

9
PPE expansion and the sustainable funding dilemma
  • Increasing cost efficiency of present educational
    spending?
  • Increasing public funding for PPE?
  • Generating more non-government local funding
    PPPs?
  • Scaling up development assistance for PPE?

10
More of the same?Or Expansion as Transformation?
  • Reaching out to the excluded Rural/Poor/ Girls..
  • gtTargeting i. The unschooled,
  • ii. The drop-outs,
  • iii the inadequately schooled?
  • From the traditional elitist system to an
    inclusive mass basic education needs-driven
    TVET and HE
  • Do we have what it takes?

11
Expected outcomes
  • Have we gained
  • Awareness of changing realities?
  • Increased understanding through shared
    experiences?
  • More of a common vision about changes needed?
  • An evidence-based framework for policy and
    practice?
  • How to bring about change at national level?
  • Commitment to new partnerships?
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