At the Crossroads Choice for Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa
The challenges of education development in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) at the beginning of the 21st century are urgent and unprecedented. Faced with persistent gaps in the coverage of primary schooling, almost all countries have launched major efforts...
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Washington, DC : World Bank
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/08/9850227/crossroads-choice-secondary-education-sub-saharan-africa http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6537 |
| Summary: | The challenges of education development
in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) at the beginning of the 21st
century are urgent and unprecedented. Faced with persistent
gaps in the coverage of primary schooling, almost all
countries have launched major efforts to ensure that all
children will have the opportunity to complete primary
education of acceptable quality. Concurrently, accelerating
economic growth and social change are creating an urgent
imperative to expand access to further learning to
strengthen the human resources base. This report provides a
timely resource on good practices and potential solutions
for developing and sustaining high-quality secondary
education systems in African countries. It contains elements
of a roadmap for improving the responsiveness of
Africa's secondary education systems to the challenges
of the 21st century. Its main objective is to facilitate
policy dialogue within African countries and between those
countries and their development partners. This book
addresses issues concerning the education of youth about 12
to 18 years old. It draws on the outcomes of the Secondary
Education in Africa (SEIA) initiative, which supported
workshops in Kampala, Dakar, and Accra and commissioned
eight thematic studies and several background papers
underpinning key sections of this book. The emphasis is on
general junior and senior secondary education, complementing
earlier work on skills development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Secondary education has generally been neglected in
education policy and practice. This is now changing, but
still suffers from being addressed separately from other
parts of the system. What are needed are secondary education
plans that are integrated with longer-term national plans
for education development. |
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