Fesman - Général

Général

BCA RSS Syndicator

Fesman2009

Education, the Reform of Educational Systems and African Renaissance
Reforming the educational systems of Africa and  the Diaspora is all the more imperative as the world has undergone tremendous changes resulting from globalization which is characterized by ruthless competition in which human progress is totally dominated by immaterial assets.

Ideas are taking precedence over products. Activities such as thinking, devising, initiating, creating, are at least as important as raw materials.
As the nations of the world are now fiercely competing for economic and intellectual leadership, only intelligence will make a difference. This is why some people are now talking about the intellect industries.

In this context, Africa and her Diaspora cannot enter the electronic and digital age with educational systems, learning tools and mechanisms inherited from the Industrial Revolution which occurred at least 150 years ago.

We must dare break new ground, set new goals, a new vision, define a new horizon and develop conceptual strategies and operational schemes likely to meet people's basic needs.
We must also dare completely change our paradigms, as Asian Tiger countries have. Some of those countries have succeeded in achieving in 25 years what it took Europe a century to cover.

The new educational system of Renaissance Africa cannot, for example, overlook the obvious fact that, today, the technical changes that generate added value occur in the industrial sector in four main areas:

  1. The dissemination of machine tools with integrated calculators
  2. The use of programmable automated machines
  3. The use of more and more complex robots endowed with the capacity to understand the work environment
  4. The development of computer-based designing, manufacturing and management techniques.
The new educational system of Renaissance Africa should also resolutely opt for the systematic use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), because, with the advent of integrated circuits and digital technology, each and every learner must be able to cope with the unprecedented modernization of communication networks that will be achieved in the near future and which will determine:

  1. The area of broadband and commutative communication
  2. The area of multimedia applications
  3. The sector of wireless technologies
  4. The field of intelligent networks

Finally, the educational system of Renaissance Africa is to give a fundamental role to the value of work, and to sustained and sustainable efforts. Any educational system that ignores these requirements is bound to lag behind.