Ten years after the 1994 genocide-in which an estimated 10 percent of the country's population perished-Rwanda's devastated education system is now back on its feet. Classrooms have been repaired and new ones built; teachers who fled the mayhem have been reintegrated into the teaching force; arrears in teacher pay have been cleared up; a Genocide Fund has been created specifically to assist orphans; and, in higher education, the system has been diversified and new arrangements for student finance have been introduced. These successes notwithstanding, the task of transforming the rapid recovery into sustained progress over time has only just begun. A priority will be to ensure that all Rwandan children can complete a full course of primary schooling of reasonable quality; and that expansion at the post-primary levels occurs at a pace commensurate with the labor market's capacity to absorb highly educated job seekers. Achieving these goals will present tough tradeoffs in financing and service delivery: for example, combing increased funding for primary education with greater reliance on private financing at other levels of education; sharper targeting of public subsidies for education; and tighter management of classroom processes to improve student flow and student learning throughout the system.

Author: World Bank
Publisher: The World Bank
Illustration: Y
Language: ENG
Title: Education in Rwanda: Rebalancing Resources to Accelerate Post-Conflict Development and Poverty Reduction
Pages: 00000 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2003-11-07
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780821356104
Lib Category: Education - Rwanda
Category: Business & Economics : Development - Economic Development
Category: Education : Educational Policy & Reform
Category: Social Science : Developing Countries