Make education relevant to African development
The African higher education research agenda has principally focused on academic and scientific objectives not tailored to the continent’s development needs, a meeting has heard. The meeting held in Nigeria last month (25-26 July) aimed to gather input from 30 senior decision-makers in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe on continuing efforts of countries in delivering balanced and inclusive education and how to further improve these efforts through policy and practice.
Manssour Bin Mussallam, president of the Education Relief Foundation (ERF), a Switzerland-based nongovernmental organisation, said, “Africa has not been directed sufficiently to the search for continental solutions to health, education, water, climate change, energy and food security — all sustainable development indices.”
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