By: Govender P & Gruzd S (eds)
Produced by: South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), University of the Witwatersrand, 2004
This report presents a collection of five articles on education in Africa, each paper discussing the situation of a particular area or issue in education, and highlighting the challenges which need to be addressed, often benchmarking progress against EFA goals and the MDGs.
This report aims to encourage governments, donors and policy makers thinking and planning ahead to cope with the expected successes of UPE. Some main recommendations to emerge from the various articles include:
- Teacher salaries must be raised
- Measuring results is a prerequisite of progress
- Maths and science education need dramatic improvement
- Secondary education is as important as UPE
- Educating girls deserves more attention
- HIV/AIDS is aggravating attempts to achieve UPE
- Corruption robs children of their fundamental right to education
- Curriculum reform is urgently needed
- Africa can learn from East Asia.
The titles of the articles in the collection are as follows:
- The tragedy of education in Africa
- What’s next? Coping with successful Primary Education For All
- Secondary education in Africa (SEIA): engine for economic and social growth
- Planning and financing secondary education in Africa
- Shifting targets: why UPE is so difficult to attain/sustain
- Education lessons: East Asia’s economic transformation.
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