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The Sierra Leone Teachers Union Scribe Mr Allieu Deen Conteh in the company of the Deputy Minister of Technical and Higher Education Mr. Sarjoh Aziz-Kamara has joined other Educational Stakeholders: leaders and innovators in education development from across Africa, Researchers, International Organisations and Education Partners; Civil Society organisations, the Youth and Private sector stakeholders in the 2024 Continental Education Conference 2024 hosted by the Government of Mauritania and organized by the African Union in partnership with UNICEF, at the Convention Center (Palais de Congrès), Nouakchott.
Under the theme “Educate and Skill Africa for the 21st Century,” the conference looks at strategies in improving learning quality, such as curriculum reform, teacher development, digital integration, inclusive education, and reaching the most marginalized, emergency and crisis affected children based on the review of the implementation of the AU Roadmap of Education and Transforming Education Summit (TES).
This conference is an acknowledgement of the AU’s Education as the Theme of the Year 2024, “Educate an African fit for the 21st Century: Building resilient education systems for increased access to inclusive, lifelong, quality, and relevant learning in Africa”.
Sierra Leone has made significant progress in expanding access to education over the years under the visionary leadership of President Bio, with 22% budgetary allocation for free quality school education. The major policy shifts in Sierra Leone, has the Radical Inclusion policy, Hands-of-girls are generally commended as best practices to advance access to education, especially gender equity and provision for persons living with disability.
Whilst Sierra Leone has made major. strides, many African countries struggle with persisting number of out of school/training children and youths, as well as children not acquiring sufficient foundational literacy and numeracy skills upon which all future learning is built.
A compendium of good practices in term of successful models and innovative solutions implemented in AU member states to inspire and guide policy makers for effective transformation of education and skills systems will also be a guiding mark at the end of the conference.
Among the objectives of this continental conference are to appreciate the level of implementation by AU member states of commitments and decisions made to transform education in Africa in recent years.
Significantly the conference aims to showcase successful models, innovative and sustainable solutions of educational transformation from across the continent to meet the demands of the 21st century.
Likewise to strengthen partnerships and collaboration to foster knowledge sharing among policy makers, researchers, educators, and civil society stakeholders; and to explore sustainable financing mechanism for education through strengthened domestic resources and other innovative mechanisms for transforming education systems.
