Policy Coherence in Education towards Knowledge Society Development in Mauritius

POLICY COHERENCE IN EDUCATION TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY DEVELOPMENT IN MAURITIUS

Mr Auckbur Ricaud Gervais

Mr Nadesh Thyartan

Mrs Rubina Rampersad

Mr Santally Mohammad Issack

Mrs Surekha Seebah

Mrs Kavita Purmessur

Mrs Rassoolbee Azaree

Mr Hosany Mussawir

Mr Ehsan Choonee

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Mauritius and the Knowledge Society

Education in Mauritius – State of the Art and A review of major policies

The Education Pillar, The Knowledge Society and the Concept of Policy Coherence

Methodology of the team inquiry

The future scenarios for the education pillar

A policy coherence framework for Mauritius

MAURITIUS AND KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

CHALLENGES DUE TO GLOBALISATION

Government efforts to make ICT as a strong pillar of the economy

The Knowledge Hub....

Accelerated progress towards the Knowledge

Society

Policy Coherence is key

THE MAURITIUS EDUCATION PILLAR

Primary Education sectors covers a period of six years covering from age 5 up to about age 11.

The end of primary school marked by the examinations called CPE (Certificate of Primary Education). This is a national examination.

To improve CPE examinations results, the 'Zones d' Education Prioritaires' (Z.E.P.) concept was launched

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The percentage of secondary schools providing internet access to students was at the level of 95.7% in 2009

The number of students per computer was 22 and the number of students examined in ICT at School Certificate (SC) level increased by 13.0% that is from 4,636 in 2009 to 5,241 in 2010

Digitization of classrooms in Primary schools and the expansion of the computerization of secondary schools to lead to a stronger penetration of a culture of ICT at all levels of schooling

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serves as a policy instrument to address the need for skilled manpower in both existing and emerging economic sectors

The number of students per computer was 22 and the number of students examined in ICT at School Certificate (SC) level increased by 13.0% that is from 4,636 in 2009 to 5,241 in 2010

The public provider of TVET is the Mauritius Institute of Training and Development (MITD), and there are about 350 private training institutions, registered with the Mauritius Qualifications Authority (MQA).

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Gross tertiary enrolment rate (GTER) in 2012 is 46 % . The government aims to raise the GTER further to reach the targeted rate of 72% by 2015.

The Government has a vision of one graduate per family.

setting up of a separate Ministry dedicated to tertiary education demonstrates the Government’s willingness to implement its vision of transforming the tertiary education landscape

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KS, POLICY COHERENCE, EDUCATION AND MAURITIUS

We develop a policy coherence framework for the education pillar for Mauritius with respect to KS development

Desk research, half-day workshop and the alternative futures framework as main methodological approach

We look at four possible scenarios for the education pillar in Mauritius towards the KS building process

THE KEY QUESTIONS

What are the key priorities for Education in the next 10 years for Mauritius?

How do the latest policies at National level in the Education sector promote or might hinder the progress towards the Knowledge Society?

What internal factors within the Country’s governance system will affect the progress towards the Knowledge Society with particular emphasis on the Education pillar?

What external factors will affect the progress towards the Knowledge Society with particular emphasis on the Education Pillar?

THE TRENDS

Stronger links between industry, research institutions and education drive greater innovation

ICT has overtaken agriculture as a key African industry

Anxieties over social division and inter-cultural conflict mean increased emphasis on developing economic conditions (decent jobs), better integration of citizens and constructive collective identities

Decreasing water availability and increasing drought will have complex effects upon global food supply.

THE SCENARIOS

Growth

Graduate production machine – placing onegraduate in each household

Skilled labor will be on shortage on the market

Mauritian intellectuals will form the core of the so-called knowledge hub

THE SCENARIOS

Constraint

Cosmetic improvements

In 2022, in the constraint scenario, ICT

will still be at experimental level in schools and

Government promises will have

moved from offering a laptop per child policy to a tablet per child policy to now a mobile phone per child policy

THE SCENARIOS

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The New Generation School

Transformation

schools without walls

interactive on-demand curriculum

School building will become

Temples of life arts

THE POLICY COHERENCE FRAMEWORK

FUNDING MODEL

Innovations Framework

Curriculum’s Framework

ICT INFRASTRUCTURE

QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK