Schools in Djibouti

Djibouti schools system

Give standard stats on enrolment etc.

Include role of ministries, regions, municipalities etc

The education sector is a priority for the Djiboutian government, accounting for 20.5% of its budget. The policy for the education system and its plan of action for 2006-2008 complied with two targets of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs): to ensure that by 2015 children everywhere will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling and that girls and boys will have equal access to all levels of education.

Below we provide a quantitative perspective of some selected system indicators

Net primary enrolment = 39% (2004)

Net secondary enrolment = 22% (2004)

Gross tertiary enrolment = 2% (2004)

Adult literacy = 67.9%

There are 81 public primary schools in the country, 24 registered private primary schools, 12 secondary schools and two vocational schools. An estimated 73% of eligible primary school children do not attend school. Only 8% of first graders will eventually reach the 12th grade. Girls’ enrolment is more than 10% lower than that of boys. Teacher attrition is very high and new teachers are scarce. The local teacher-training institute is unable to graduate more than 130 teachers per year. Textbooks are inadequate and there are not enough of them: on average, 20 primary school students will share a math textbook and three will share a French text. Several international agencies have come in to assist the Ministry of Education with its reform programme which aims at improving access and the quality of education. Some of the organisations involved in the Djibouti education sector include USAID, UNICEF, and the French government through the framework partnership between France and Djibouti.

ICT programmes

List all of these - national, regional, municipal - including OER initiatives.

Although ICT has been recognised as a critical tool in modernising the education sector to cater for the diverse human resource needs for the country, Djibouti has yet to develop a sector-specific ICT for education policy. In its sectoral strategies for the Poverty Reduction Strategy, the country has committed to establishing a health and education network, improve the connectivity and build ICT training facilities at the university, implement a videoconferencing system, and strengthen the CISCO Academy and the SchoolNet project.

The ministry also has made capacity-building a priority for teachers in the use of ICT through the National Education and ICT project and the automation of the ministry itself. There is also movement from the secondary school level to the national university. At the secondary school level some schools, through donors and NGOs, have managed to equip computer labs and establish connectivity provided by the telecom incumbent Djibouti Telecom.

Exemplar schools

Virtual Schools

Note any suggested for case studies.

Other exemplar initiatives

Note any suggested for case studies.

Exemplar practices

Such as OER, language teaching, use of mobile devices, CBT, high-stakes assessment.

References

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