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SPECIFICATION OF INDICATORS OF A NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF EDUCATION SYSTEM : A pplication to C ameroon E ducation S ystem. NDJOCK Fleur Nadine Doctorate student, Cnam-Paris; DICEN-IDF laboratory, France. Outline. Research environment Problem area Proposed solution
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SPECIFICATION OF INDICATORS OF A NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF EDUCATION SYSTEM :Application to Cameroon Education System NDJOCK Fleur Nadine Doctorate student, Cnam-Paris; DICEN-IDF laboratory, France
Outline • Research environment • Problem area • Proposed solution • Issues related to specification of indicators
Research environment • Geographical location • Overview of education system
Geographical location Cameroon’s map
Education System (1) • (1) Kolyang, Fleur Nadine MvondoMvondo, Les Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication au service de l’enseignement : l’exemple camerounais, Editions CLE, 2013
Ministry of Basic Education Education System STATE Ministry of Employment and Professional Training Ministry of Higher Education Ministry of Secondary Education
Lacks of Cameroon’s education system (2) • The high enrollment rate but the dropout rate also. • The unemployment rate islow but the underemploymentisvery high • Inadequatetraining and employment • The burstinguniversitiesleading to the degradation of the quality of training • The absence of a coherent system of vocational training. (2) Cameroon’s Growth and Employment StrategyPaper - GESP
Cameroon’sGrowth and Employment Strategy Paper (GESP) The growth and employment strategy paper (GESP) is a testimony of the Government's will to continue efforts aimed at full achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). It is one of the second-generation PovertyReductionStrategyPaper (PRSP)s, and so has been designed by the Government, following a dynamic and open process, involving full participation of the population at the grassroots, civil society organizations, the private sector and development partners.
How understand educative environmentwithitsdiversityand complexity and the diversity of stakeholders ? • How four differentdepartmentscanwork to achieve a common goal namely the performance of the education system? • Whatare the indicatorsmost objective, relevant, comprehensive for a relevant education system? • How all stakeholders canfollow the evolution of the business without stepping on toes. Problematic
Proposed solution • The observatory concept as a tool for decision support
The concept of observatory… Captors/sensors Controllers/control Visualization/display
Added value of observatory Basic education Actor 5 Actor 1 Actor 2 Actor 4 Secondary education Actor 3 GESP DATA BASE Higher education Result Professionnal training • INDICATORS • Access and equity • Internal efficiency • Quality and suitability • Management Added-value
Issues related to specification of indicators • Issues related on the education environment • Issues related to the user • Issues related to the evaluation of results
Issues related on the education environment • Incorporating the specific cultural and socio-economiccontexts, each country identifies and definesitsown performance indicators. • This remains a dauntingtasksince the education system turns out to becomplexwith a large number of entitiesinteractingwitheachother. • To measure the performance of a system such as education, itisnecessary to chooseappropriateindicators. • Performance indicatorswillbe an instrument thatprovides quantitative information concerning the resultsachieved in the activity in relation to objectives set in advance.
From information collection Issues related to the user
On the interpretation of results Issues related to the user (2)
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