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Continental Education Strategy for Africa 2016-2025 (CESA 16-25)
Africa is ushering into an era that most observers and pundits are predicting will determine its destiny as the continent of the future. But to fulfill this promised bright future, the continent has to come to terms with its education and training systems that are yet to fully shed the weight of its colonial legacy and its own tribulations as a relatively new political and economic entity and player in the world arena.
In the bid to “create” a new African citizen who will be an effective change agent for the continent’s sustainable development as envisioned by the AU and its 2063 Agenda, the African Union Commission has developed a comprehensive ten-year Continental Education Strategy for Africa (CESA 16-25).
This strategy is driven by the desire to set up a “qualitative system of education and training to provide the African continent with efficient human resources adapted to African core values and therefore capable of achieving the vision and ambitions of the African Union.
RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING POLICY FRAMEWORK IN KENYA
Over the last two years, the Government of Kenya has been implementing reforms aimed at promoting access and equity in education and training. One imperative of these reforms was the establishment of a complementary and flexible pathway by recognizing experiential learning. Learning happens throughout life, anytime, anywhere from cradle to grave (OECD 2007). This learning leads to acquisition of knowledge, skills and competencies that are not recognized and certified, hence disadvantaging the individuals. This RPL policy, therefore, aims at guiding the implementation of recognition of prior learning for improved employability, mobility, self-esteem and advanced learning. The policy aims at mitigating the challenges faced by disadvantaged individuals who possess competencies but lack certification thereby depriving them fair opportunities with those who have attained competencies through the formal education system. The development of this policy was a result of a broad consultation process among sector-wide stakeholders informed by the Constitution of Kenya 2010 that views lifelong learning as an important stimulus and enabler for the country’s socio-economic transformation agenda as stipulated in the national development blueprint, Kenya Vision 2030. It is also anchored on legal and policy frameworks as well as on the aspirations of the African Union Agenda 2063 and the United Nations Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development.
National and Regional Qualifications Frameworks Interactions and Governance Models
This Technical Overview is a contribution to the training programme of Cinterfor, carried out in the context of the development of a regional qualifications framework (webinar of 29/07/2021).
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ETF
Eduarda Castel-Branco
29 July 2021
Overview and 10 country cases for ACQF Website
Ten examples from African countries presented in this report show some diversity in terms of scope, and design of RPL / Validation systems, but also several common traits: Angola, Cape Verde, Kenya, Lesotho, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, and Zambia.
Source: https://acqf.africa/resources/recognition-of-prior-learning/recognition-of-prior-learning-gives-us-wings
Regional mobility (Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, and South Sudan)
Regional mobility aims to support regional labour/ refugees/ migrants/ forced/ voluntary mobility.
The current IGAD (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda) process overseen by the ILO will be used as a basis for further work on skills recognition in East Africa, of which the Djibouti declaration on refugees is key. Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan will lead this process.
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Regional MIS (Rwanda and Tanzania)
Management Information System (MIS) is a planned system of collecting, storing, and disseminating data in the form of information needed to carry out the functions of management.
A Regional TVET MIS system shall enable planning and sharing of information among countries.
The current work underway through the OpenEMIS process will be used as a basis for a regional TVET MIS. UNESCO will lead this process with Rwanda and Tanzania.
Regional OERs (Seychelles and Madagascar)
Open Educational Resources (OERs) are teaching, learning and research materials in any medium – digital or otherwise – that reside in the public domain or have been released under an open licence that permits no-cost access, use, adaptation and redistribution by others with no or limited restrictions.
Open Educational Resources (OERs) form part of ‘Open Solutions’, alongside Free and Open Source software (FOSS), Open Access (OA), Open Data (OD) and crowdsourcing platforms.
Monitoring and evaluation (Madagascar, Comoros and Djibouti)
Madagascar, Comoros and Djibouti will draw on the African Union Commission Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) framework, considering SDG4 and CESA targets, to develop key indicators and a theory of change that can support the TVET Mahe Process.
Monitoring involves regularly collecting information about a project or programme to track progress towards expected results, as well as checking for unexpected results and contextual factors.
BEAR II is a joint effort between UNESCO and the Republic of Korea to improve the TVET systems of five beneficiary countries in Eastern Africa.
Mahe process advocates for the improvement of TVET across East Africa through sharing of information and working towards regional harmonisation and mutualization.
The need for integrating ICT is very critical in the post-COVID-19 world that has disrupted TVET activities. This brings about the need for a TVET regional platform for member states to collaborate, exchange information and support in harmonisation and mutualization activities under the Mahe Process.