BURKINA FASO: Progress on MDG education goal creates new problems
OUAGADOUGOU, 30 January 2009 (IRIN): Years of boosting primary school enrolment in Burkina Faso to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs – 2015 Målene) has increased pressure on the poor Sahelian countrys universities.
Education officials must now manage the “explosive growth” at higher levels created as more students enrol and stay in school longer, according to the Ministry of Education.
The MDGs, adopted in 2000, call for universal primary education by 2015.
Joseph Pare, Minister of Higher Education, told IRIN that university enrolment in Burkina Faso has increased by 25 percent in 2007, in part because of more high school graduates.
– There is now a strong trend of students making it though the secondary level, which creates infrastructural and human resource problems, noted he.
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