Measuring the Impact of Educational Institutions in Higher Education in West Africa: key indicators
Since the 2000s, there has been a massive expansion in private higher education provision. This offer is characterized by diversity, ranging from micro-institutions with few resources to large university groups. This rapid growth reinforces the need to measure the social impact of these institutions, in order to guarantee and control the quality of the training […]
Conversations with Senegal’s educational ecosystem: the imperatives to employability
Each year, Senegal sees a cohort of 200,000 young people enter the job market, according to official figures from the Ministry of Employment, Vocational Training, Apprenticeship and Integration. Yet, despite this abundance of potential manpower, youth unemployment remains a major concern. This reality raises a crucial question: why this gap between job supply and demand? […]
Digitization and professional integration: achieving digital integration in Côte d’Ivoire
The rise of digital technology has revolutionized the way we live, communicate, learn and, of course, work. This transformation is especially significant in Africa, where young people face both unique challenges and countless opportunities in their quest to enter the job market. To understand these dynamics and the potential implications of digital technology, we met […]
Promoting african publications as a means to improve the education system, hence ensuring future economic growth.
By 2050, Africa’s population will grow from 1.51 billion to 2.45 billion. This demographic power will propel Africa into an economic powerhouse. Africa’s GDP in 2050, in the most modest scenarios, will be in absolute value the GDP of China today (1). But this demographic power will only reveal its full potential if for the […]
Are universities in Africa excluding women?
Abidjan, early 60’s, the young Dicoh Mariam Konan starts studying chemistry at the Technical High School. She soon became the first female chemist in the Ivory Coast. Her portrait on the 25fcfa coins, still in circulation today, illustrates the impact of her career. It symbolizes a West Africa in progress, with educated women, while the […]
Youth employment: Africa should not train more, but train better
A couple of numbers are enough to understand how important the challenges related to the employability of young people on the African continent are. Currently, 15-24 year-olds represent 20% of the African population, but more than 40% of the unemployed [1]. By 2030, according to UNESCO projections, approximately 100 million young people will enter the […]
A survey of African education institutions: coping with the Covid-19 crisis
The Covid-19 health crisis has hit the education sector hard, from early childhood to vocational training, with school closures and distance learning. We surveyed some thirty African educational institutions to understand the impacts of the crisis and the coping strategies put in place by those most affected. A brief methodological overview This article is […]
Covid-19: what impacts on the early childhood sector?
Faced with school closures in at least 188 countries around the world as a result of the Covid-19 crisis, many educational institutions have had to set up a distance learning system. This temporary reorganization of activity will certainly have a strong and lasting impact on educational structures. If this distance learning is sometimes complex, particularly […]