Education
From The Report: Cote d'Ivoire 2017
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Côte d’Ivoire is investing in achieving sustainable high growth levels, for which it requires a strong education sector. The government has its eyes set on expanding basic education access, improving education quality and governance, and enhancing the link between education and the job market. In addition to ongoing initiatives, the government has set out a series of actions, outlined in the 2016-20 National Development Plan, under which it allocates an ambitious indicative budget totalling close to CFA5trn (€7.5bn) for education, including public and private contributions. This chapter contains an interview with Saliou Touré, President, International University of Grand Bassam.

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Overview

Vital efforts: Sector focus is on universal access, enhancing quality and governance, and strengthening links to the labour market
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Côte d’Ivoire is investing in achieving sustainable high growth levels, for which it requires a strong education sector. The government has its eyes set on expanding basic education access, improving education quality and governance, and enhancing the link between education and the job market. Despite efforts carried out in recent years, there is still room for improvement. In addition to ongoing initiatives, the government has set out a series of actions, outlined in the 2016-20 National Development…

Analysis

Step by step: New measures have been taken to strengthen human capital
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With its sights set on achieving emerging nation status by 2020, Côte d’Ivoire is looking to strengthen its technical and vocational training capacity to better respond to its evolving labour market needs. A reform introduced in 2012 at the technical and vocational training level has allowed for progress in a number of areas. Among other things, new measures enabled the establishment of important partnerships and the development of training, evaluation and certification standards. Moreover,…

Interview

Raising the bar: Saliou Touré, President, International University of Grand Bassam (IUGB), on improvements in higher education
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Interview:Saliou Touré What can be done to improve higher education enrolment rates in Côte d’Ivoire? SALIOU TOURE: Enrolment in higher education is undeniably linked to the development of primary – and secondary – level education, which provides students with the educational basis on which to succeed in university. Like all countries going through a period of turmoil, the years leading up to 2011 had a negative impact on our education system. It is true that access to overall education…