Improving the conditions of teachers and education in Africa is a priority for the African Union. Faced with numerous challenges, the AU is aiming for an education revolution to achieve the objectives of Agenda 2063. To achieve this, the African Union is counting on the implementation of its Continental Strategy on Education for Africa. According to UNESCO, each year Africa needs to mobilise an additional 77 billion dollars to achieve its national education goals.
Africa’s education sector faces a number of challenges, from limited access to educational resources to the need to train qualified teachers. To achieve the goals of Agenda 2063, the African Union has initiated the Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA) for the period 2016-2025, which aims to transform the continent’s education and training systems to meet the needs of states and populations in terms of skills, knowledge and qualification
In order for our education system to be necessarily integrated, to be necessarily adapted, and that at the level of its sleep, at the level of its head, that it is an education system which produces designers, because it is these designers there who will try to find. What solutions are appropriate for the problems that the country will come to face.
Moumouni Zoungrana , Researcher
Education, the AU’s theme for 2024, aims to draw the attention of leaders and development players to the objective of building human capital on the African continent, in order to raise indicators at all levels of learning and meet the standards of international competition
The President of the Transition, Brigadier General Brice Clotaire, who has made education a priority in his programme for the development of the Gabonese nation, has resolved to train 2401 primary, primary and general secondary school teachers, i.e. 1501 primary school teachers.
Camélia Ntoutoume , Minister of Education – Gabon
Unesco’s 2023 Global Education Monitoring Report shows that the out-of-school population in sub-Saharan Africa at primary and secondary levels has fallen from 44% in 2000 to 29% in 2020. Over the same period, the youth literacy rate in sub-Saharan Africa has increased from 66% to 77.5%, and the adult literacy rate from 52.6% in 2000 to 64.3% in 2020.
We have asked the Cames to accredit all our training programmes so that they can be recognised internationally in terms of the development and promotion of university research. It has to be said that a lot of things are being done to encourage teachers to carry out research applied to regional and national development.
Kokou TCHARIE , President of the University of Kara
Unesco estimates that 15 million teachers need to be recruited by 2030 to guarantee quality primary and secondary education for all the people of Africa. According to Unesco, each year Africa needs to mobilise an additional 77 billion dollars to achieve its national education goals.
