1. POLICY COHERENCE IN EDUCATION
TOWARDS KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
DEVELOPMENT IN MAURITIUS
Mr Auckbur Ricaud Gervais
Mr Nadesh Thyartan
Mrs Rubina Rampersad
Mr Santally Mohammad Issack
Mrs Surekha Seebah
Mrs Kavita Purmessur
Mrs Rassoolbee Azaree
Mr Hosany Mussawir
Mr Ehsan Choonee

2. MENU
 Mauritius and the Knowledge Society
 Education in Mauritius – State of the Art and A review of
major policies
 The Education Pillar, The Knowledge Society and the
Concept of Policy Coherence
 Methodology of the team inquiry
 The future scenarios for the education pillar
 A policy coherence framework for Mauritius

3. MAURITIUS AND KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

4. CHALLENGES DUE TO GLOBALISATION
Government efforts to
make ICT as a strong pillar
of the economy
The Knowledge Hub....
Accelerated progress
towards the Knowledge
Society
Policy Coherence is key

5. THE MAURITIUS EDUCATION PILLAR
Primary Education sectors covers a
period of six years covering from age 5
up to about age 11.
The end of primary school marked by
the examinations called CPE
(Certificate of Primary Education). This
is a national examination.
To improve CPE examinations results,
the 'Zones d' Education Prioritaires'
(Z.E.P.) concept was launched
PRIMARY

6. THE MAURITIUS EDUCATION PILLAR
The percentage of secondary schools
providing internet access to students
was at the level of 95.7% in 2009
The number of students per computer was 22
and the number of students examined in ICT
at School Certificate (SC) level increased by
13.0% that is from 4,636 in 2009 to 5,241 in
2010
Digitization of classrooms in Primary schools
and the expansion of the computerization of
secondary schools to lead to a stronger
penetration of a culture of ICT at all levels of
schooling
SECONDARY

7. THE MAURITIUS EDUCATION PILLAR
serves as a policy instrument to
address the need for skilled manpower
in both existing and emerging
economic sectors
The number of students per computer was 22
and the number of students examined in ICT
at School Certificate (SC) level increased by
13.0% that is from 4,636 in 2009 to 5,241 in
2010
The public provider of TVET is the Mauritius
Institute of Training and Development (MITD),
and there are about 350 private training
institutions, registered with the Mauritius
Qualifications Authority (MQA).
TVET

8. THE MAURITIUS EDUCATION PILLAR
Gross tertiary enrolment rate (GTER) in 2012
is 46 % . The government aims to raise the
GTER further to reach the targeted rate of
72% by 2015.
The Government has a vision of one
graduate per family.
setting up of a separate Ministry dedicated to
tertiary education demonstrates the
Government’s willingness to implement its
vision of transforming the tertiary education
landscape
TERTIARY

9. KS, POLICY COHERENCE, EDUCATION AND
MAURITIUS
We develop a policy coherence framework for the
education pillar for Mauritius with respect to KS
development
Desk research, half-day workshop and the
alternative futures framework as main
methodological approach
We look at four possible scenarios for the
education pillar in Mauritius towards the KS
building process

10. THE KEY QUESTIONS
What are the key priorities for Education in the next 10
years for Mauritius?
How do the latest policies at National level in the
Education sector promote or might hinder the progress
towards the Knowledge Society?
What internal factors within the Country’s governance
system will affect the progress towards the Knowledge
Society with particular emphasis on the Education pillar?
What external factors will affect the progress towards the
Knowledge Society with particular emphasis on the
Education Pillar?

11. THE TRENDS
Stronger links between industry, research institutions and
education drive greater innovation
ICT has overtaken agriculture as a key African industry
Anxieties over social division and inter-cultural conflict mean
increased emphasis on developing economic conditions
(decent jobs), better integration of citizens and constructive
collective identities
Decreasing water availability and increasing drought will
have complex effects upon global food supply.

12. THE SCENARIOS
Growth
Graduate production machine – placing one
graduate in each household
Skilled labor will be on shortage on the
market
Mauritian intellectuals will form the core of
the so-called knowledge hub

13. THE SCENARIOS
Constraint
Cosmetic
improvements
In 2022, in the constraint scenario, ICT will still
be at experimental level in schools
and Government promises will have
moved from offering a laptop per child
policy to a tablet per child
policy to now a mobile phone
per child policy

14. THE SCENARIOS
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15. THE SCENARIOS
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The New Generation
School
Transformation
schools
without
walls
interactive on-d
curriculum
School building
will become
Temples of life
arts

16. THE POLICY COHERENCE FRAMEWORK
FUNDING MODEL
Innovations
Framework
Curriculum’s
Framework
ICT INFRASTRUCTURE
QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORK