6 March 2008
Maputo — The Mozambican Education Ministry and the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) have begun preparations for the Eighth Biennale on African Education, to be held in Maputo in early May, with an agenda centred on the challenges of pots-primary education.
The details were presented at a joint press conference between the Ministry and ADEA in Maputo on Thursday.
The ADEA Executive Secretary, Mamadou Ndoye, said that, in a break with previous editions, the event will bring together not only experts and decision makers in the area of education, but also representatives of productive sectors who will advance ideas about what they want from the schools.
"These bodies can state what kind of curriculum they expect their potential employees to have studied", he said. "The behaviour and skills of graduates, their technical ability, among requirements, are indispensable from the viewpoint of strengthening the productive sector".
The meeting will also discuss new means of sustaining the articulation between primary and secondary, and between secondary and higher education. This articulation should inform policy making.
ADEA describes itself as "a network of partners promoting the development of effective education policies based on African leadership and ownership", which is concerned with "fostering a process that empowers African ministries of education and makes development agencies more responsive to the concept of national ownership".
Its members are largely education ministries across the continent and it is run by a Steering Committee consisting of ten African ministers of education and representatives of multilateral, bilateral and private development organizations that work in the education sector.
ADEA justifies this Biennale's focus on post-primary education on the grounds that Africa has made "significant progress" towards the goal of universal primary education, and it promises that "the 2008 Biennale will present to the African educational community the most recent tools, knowledge and practices that are liable to bring continent-wide progress in post-primary education".
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