EDUCATION SECTOR UPDATES

RENCP General Assembly30 July 2015

Overall Pre-Primary Net Enrolment Rate (NER)

2010 2011 2012 2013 20140.0%

5.0%

10.0%

15.0%

20.0%

25.0%

30.0%

17%

28%

NER Overall NER Boys NER Girls2014/2015 ESSP target2017/2018 ESSP target

School year

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Overall Primary GER

2010 2011 2012 2013 201490.0%

95.0%

100.0%

105.0%

110.0%

115.0%

120.0%

125.0%

130.0%

135.0%

140.0%

117%

100%

GER Overall

GER Boys

GER Girls

2014/2015 ESSP target

2017/2018 ESSP target

School year

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Overall Primary Completion Rate/CR

2010 2011 2012 2013 201450.0%

55.0%

60.0%

65.0%

70.0%

75.0%

80.0%

85.0%

74%

75% CR Overall

Boys

Girls

2014/2015 ESSP target

2017/2018 ESSP target

School Year

Com

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Overall Primary Promotion, Repetition and dropout rate

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014/2015 ESSP target

2017/2018 ESSP target

5% 15% 25% 35% 45% 55% 65% 75% 85% 95%2010 2011 2012 2013 2014/2015

ESSP target2017/2018 ESSP target

Promotion rate 0.756 0.764 0.764 0.676 0.809 0.866

Repetition Rate 0.13 0.127 0.125 0.183 0.107 0.077

Dropout Rate 0.114 0.109 0.111 0.143 0.084 0.057

Upper Secondary NER

2011 2012 2013 20140.0%

5.0%

10.0%

15.0%

20.0%

25.0%

30.0%

35.0%

40.0%

45.0%

6.9%

25.4% 26.3% 27.3%32%

42%

NER Overall

NER Boys

NER Girls

2014/2015 ESSP target

2017/2018 ESSP target

School year

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Lower Secondary Dropout Rate by District

TVET Trainees

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 -

20,000

40,000

60,000

80,000

100,000

120,000

140,000

160,000

TVET TraineesESSP targets

Tertiary Profile

Type

2013 2014 Increment

Students

StaffInstitutions

Students

Staff

Institutions

Students

StaffInstitutions

Degree offering institutions

77,120 4,878 24 77,5125,70

126

392 823 2

Diploma offering institutions

7,328 782 14 9,501 1117 19

2,173 335 5

Technical institutions 3,435 461 7 5,345 778 12

1,910 317 5

Colleges of Education 2,465 106 2 2,374 112 2

-91 6 0

Schools of Nursing and Midwifery

1,428 215 5 1,782 227 5

354 12 0

Tertiary Education 91,776 6,442 52 96,5147,93

564 4,738

1,493

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Five key sector priorities

1. Develop school curriculum

2. Address the issue of drop-out

3. Infrastructure

4. Equip 12YBE schools with science equipment

5. Increase higher education places

Competence-based curriculum and overview of implementation

• Communication campaign

• Teacher training programme

• Revision of national assessment framework

• Development of new teaching and learning materials

• Revision of quality standards and monitoring tools

Other key issues

• Learning and LARS

• Inclusive and Special Needs Education

• Improved access to school readiness

• GPE

New policy developments

• Five new policies in progress:

• Curriculum & Assessment policy• Language of Instruction policy• Teacher Development and management policy• Learning and teaching materials policy• Special Needs Education Policy

• ESSP mid-term review and Education Sector policy, 2003

Identified challenges

- Increase in school drop-out and repetition rate

- Funding gap for implementation of ESSP, and particularly for the new curriculum

- Overall decline in percentage of education budget allocated to primary and secondary education; low funding for preprimary

- Misalignment between central and local level education planning

Changes in Ministry and DP staff

Key changes in Ministry of Education:• Honourable Minister of Education, Dr. Musafiri Papias

Malimba • Permanent Secretary, Mr. Celestin Ntivuguruzwa, • Director General of REB, Mr. Janvier Gasana

Changes in sector co-chairs:• DFID, Education Advisors, Paul Atherton & Alice Ching’oma• USAID, Lee Marshall, Education Office Director• UNICEF, Departure of Hugh Delaney