Senegal

Partners situated in Senegal

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Senegal in a nutshell

(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal)

Senegal (French: le Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country south of the Sénégal River in western Africa. Senegal is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, and Guinea and Guinea-Bissau to the south.

Gambia lies almost entirely within Senegal, surrounded by it on the north, east and south; from its western coast, Gambia's territory follows the Gambia River more than 300 kilometres (186 miles) inland.

The population of Senegal is nearly 12 million - its size is almost 197,000 km²

Dakar is the capital city of Senegal, located on the Cape Verde Peninsula on the country's Atlantic coast.

Another key centre is Saint-Louis, or Ndar as it is called in Wolof. This is the capital of Senegal's Saint-Louis Region. Located in the northwest of Senegal, near the mouth of the Senegal River, and 320 km north of Dakar, it has a population officially estimated at 176,000 in 2005. Saint-Louis was the capital of the French colony of Senegal from 1673 until independence in 1960. From 1920 to 1957 it also served as capital of the neighboring colony of Mauritania.

About a third of the population of Senegal live below the international poverty line of US$ 1.25 a day.

Senegal is subdivided into 14 regions, each administered by a Conseil Régional (Regional Council) elected by population weight at the Arrondissement level. The country is further subdivided by 34 Départements, 103 Arrondissements (neither of which have administrative function) and by Collectivités Locales, which elect administrative officers.

Senegal education policy

(sourced from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_in_Senegal)

Articles 21 and 22 of the Senegal Constitution adopted in January 2001 guarantee access to education for all children. Education is compulsory and free up to the age of 16.

However, due to limited resources and low demand for secular education in areas where Islamic education is more prevalent, the law is not fully enforced.

In 2002, the gross primary enrollment rate was 80 percent,WOOF and the net primary enrollment rate was 69 percent. Gross and net enrolment ratios are based on the number of students formally registered in primary school and therefore do not necessarily reflect actual school attendance. In 2000, 41.2 percent of children ages 5 to 14 years were attending school. Primary school attendance statistics are not available for Senegal. As of 2001, 80 percent of children who started primary school were likely to reach grade 5.

The Ministry of Labor has indicated that the public school system is unable to cope with the number of children that must enroll each year. As a result, many school-aged children seek to obtain education and training through more informal means. A large number apprentice themselves to a shop, where they receive no wages. One government official estimated there are 100,000 children apprenticed in Dakar.

The ANSD reports that as of 2001, 32.5 percent of children aged 10-14 had begun their professional lives.

Higher education

University level instruction is mainly in French.

Universities in Senegal

Senegal's main Universities are the public universities:

1. Université Cheikh Anta Diop (Cheikh Anta Diop University, formerly Dakar University) in the capital of Dakar - http://www.ucad.sn
2. Université Gaston Berger (Gaston Berger University) in Saint-Louis - http://www.ugb.sn/

The page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_universities_in_Senegal lists one more, a private university:

1. Suffolk University Dakar Campus, Dakar - this is the Dakar campus of Suffolk University, a private university based in Boston, US

Suffok University offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in more than 70 areas of study through its College of Arts and Sciences, Sawyer Business School, and Law School. It now has campuses on three continents — in Boston; Madrid, Spain; and Dakar, Senegal — as well as satellite locations in Eastern Massachusetts.

Virtual Campuses in HE

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Senegal is the headquarters of the Campus Numérique Francophone de Dakar.

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