APA-Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire) – On Tuesday 28 May 2024, Guinea-Bissau’s Minister of National Education and Scientific Innovation, Mr. Herry Mane, held a working session in Abidjan with his Ivorian counterpart as part of an exchange of experiences.
“We are here to borrow from Côte d’Ivoire’s educational experience, because we need to harmonise our system within UEMOA, and Côte d’Ivoire’s experience can be useful to us,” Mr. Herry Mane said, at the end of a meeting with Ms. Mariatou Kone at her office.
Minister Herry Mane pointed out that Guinea-Bissau had “many problems” with its education system, and said he was “sure we can find a solution here in Côte d’Ivoire” to improve his country’s educational sector.
Mariatou Kone welcomed the fact that the delegation had come “to draw inspiration from the Ivorian experience,” pointing out that “we are still learning, because when we go to Guinea-Bissau (at the invitation
of her counterpart) we will also be learning many things.”
On her arrival at the head of the Ivorian Ministry of National Education and Literacy in 2021, Pr. Mariatou Kone initiated the National Education and Literacy Conference to “diagnose” the Ivorian education system.
This “National Conference on Education,” she said, involved the various players in education. As a result, 16,000 reports were produced, from which “42 levers” were selected to “transform” the Ivorian education system.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Minister of Education cited as priorities the improvement of basic learning, the enhancement of the teaching profession in terms of motivation, and the development of informal education and digital technology.
Guinea-Bissau’s Minister of Education has invited his counterpart from Côte d’Ivoire, Mariatou Koné, to visit his country.
He maintained that the aim of this initiative is to give resourceful Bissau-Guineans an opportunity to make forays into the common markets within UEMOA.
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