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Ms. Fay Chung |
Commonwealth |
1 - 5 March 1999 |
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FORUM ON OPEN LEARNING |
Bandar Seri Begawan |
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Empowerment through Knowledge and Technology A Celebration of Ten Years of The Commonwealth of Learning Co-hosted by the Brunei Darussalam
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Ms. Fay Chung |
AFRICAN EDUCATIONAL RESPONSES TO THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALISATION
Abstract
At present, Africa is seriously handicapped by low primary, secondary, and tertiary education enrolments and with high illiteracy rates in the adult population. In the next decade Africa faces the challenge of ensuring that her population, particularly the younger generation, possesses the educational, professional, and technical skills to compete globally. At the same time, the growing democratisation of Africa requires a higher level of civic education and responsibility. Closer regional collaboration also requires that African countries harmonise their education and training systems.
Open learning systems offer technical and lower-cost possibilities to African countries to provide access and to improve the quality of education to young people. This paper briefly presents the challenges and a vision of the part open learning systems can play in providing viable solutions for Africa.
Paper (in Acrobat ".pdf" format*)
Fay Chung,
Director,
UNESCO International Capacity Building Institute for Africa,
Addis Ababa
BRUNEI, 4 March 1999
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