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o understand the Cote d’Ivoire education system, we need to first take a look at the different levels involved and in what ways the Ivorian government has aided the advancement of primary, secondary, and higher education in the country. It is important to note that the Cote d’Ivoire education system involves three levels, including 6 years of primary and 7 years of secondary education. At the higher education level, the accessibility is quite low since it is available only in the Abidjan area. Due to a lack of competent teachers, the Ivorian education system has also facilitated several teach education centres. Let’s take a closer look at how this country is working to improve its educational infrastructure at a competitive level.
The development of teacher competencies
The Cote d’Ivoire education system has come a long way since the 1980s when five levels of academic staff taught at the higher, secondary, and primary education institutes. During this time, the salaries of public school teachers were generally higher than that of other government servants. However, the Cote d’Ivoire education system still began experiencing a lack of competent teachers as the most skilled resources migrated to other professions or countries. To combat this, the government began recruiting foreign residents as teachers at the secondary and university levels as well as ran short certificate training courses to encourage Ivorians into the teaching profession. Despite this, the Cote d’Ivoire education system has not been able to reach modern standards of higher education.
The rural scenario of Cote d’Ivoire education system
In recent years, with the help of several external international partnerships, the Ivorian education system has been able to percolate down to the rural levels. The rural areas of the country have been experiencing an unprecedented level of growth in primary and secondary education wherein the education of students and teachers are going hand in hand. Enthusiastic Ivorian youth have been taking up the mantle of teachers with the help of comprehensive theory and practice-based teacher training programs that have become part of the Ivorian education system. The practising educationists and academicians have however expressed the lack of focus on higher education. And, this has resulted in many aspiring and worthy students migrating to other countries to pursue their higher education.
High student-teacher ratio
Despite the progress of the Ivorian education system, the drawback of a high student-teacher ratio in universities and colleges has caused a massive brain drain. The lack of adequate amount of professors and teachers to facilitate quality higher education has posed as a significant hurdle to the advancement of competitiveness in the Cote d’Ivoire education system. This is why a large chunk of Ivorian students are absorbed into private universities both in the country and abroad. Moreover, the insufficiency in training to match the needs of the industry has caused many Ivorian students to look to India’s Sharda University to secure the necessary higher education and training.
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