Africa-Press – Mauritius. The emergence of new economic sectors and a multi-pillar economic base in Mauritius calls for a restructuring of the country’s education and human resource development system.
The strategy aims to transform Mauritius into a highly skilled nation in the vanguard of global progress and innovation. Its mission is to develop a culture of achievement and excellence, to foster innovation and to generate new knowledge for socio-economic and sustainable development.
It seeks to ensure access to learning opportunities for all so that citizens can achieve personal growth, develop critical thinking skills and adapt to changing environments.
The strategy’s objectives recognize the importance of building flexible and integrative structures that encompass both the education and training sectors.
Lifelong learning is seen as a continuum covering the individual’s whole life span, from early childhood to retirement. Providing lifelong learning entails securing affordable access to a variety of formal and non-formal learning opportunities.
All forms of learning and all environments enabling learning should be included to ensure that lifelong learning is also an integral part of human resource development.
The promotion of lifelong learning opportunities includes the recognition of prior learning and prior experiential learning, the strengthening of open and distance learning capacity in the tertiary education institutions, the development of multiskilling and reskilling programmes and the conduct of action research in the development of lifelong learning.
Out-of-school children aged between 3 and 5 due to absolute poverty; disparity in preschools
Relatively high percentage of students failing and/or repeating the primary education certificate; low percentage of students graduating from the lower secondary sector and a corresponding low gross higher education enrolment ratio
Making public spending on education more cost-effective
Aligning secondary education with societal needs and ensuring equity among different publicly funded players and providers
No successful articulation of pathways between technical and vocational education and general education
The strategy includes all educational sectors from early childhood education through technical and vocational education to continuing education.
Ensure access of all children aged between 3 and 5 to preschool education and undertake reviews of curricula to ensure readiness for primary school
Develop proactive measures for the early detection of children with special needs
Improve completion rate at upper secondary level and create a strong quality assurance system in order to secure internal efficiency and high-quality teaching and learning
Develop a comprehensive professional development strategy for school staff; offer flexible, high-quality and challenging teacher education programmes; ensure accountability of school leaders
Enhance the quality and relevance of technical and vocational education and training; improve pathways with general education
Internationalize higher education and enhance linkages with the economic sector
Foster research and development for effective human resource development and provide professional orientation to prospective entrants to the labour market
Improve the management and performance of the Ministry of Education through its governance, accountability and achievement structures
Enhance student performance measures, paying more attention to the quality of learning
Particular feature of the strategy
The Mauritian strategy pays attention to human resource development on a national level.
The strategy refers to various frameworks and funding bodies that have been established in order to promote strategic human resource development in the country: the National Human Resource Development Plan (2007, updated in 2010), the National Qualifications Framework, the National Training Fund (1989) and the Government Empowerment Programme (2006).
The objectives for human resource development include:
Transforming Mauritius into a knowledge economy, e. g. by developing a ‘24/7’ economic model and work culture
Building a world-class human resource base, taking into account the needs of businesses as well as the aspirations of unemployed workers and the younger generation in terms of skills requirement
Fostering research and development for effective human resource development
Providing professional orientation to prospective entrants to the labour market
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