Curriculum improvement, Distance evaluation, Development of virtual laboratories featured among the key topics discussed during the audience the Secondary Education Minister granted Yao Ydo, the Director of UNESCO International Bureau of Education (UNESCO-IBE), on Friday, 17 June 2022.
The Director of the UNESCO Institute specialising in education quality issues met with the officials of the Ministry of Secondary Education to explore cooperation avenues for improving quality education at the secondary education level. A wide range of education-related issues were discussed during the meeting.
UNESCO-IBE wants to share its knowledge in the areas of contextualized curriculum design, capacity-building for stakeholders in curriculum development, development of tools for distance evaluation. The institute equally wishes to have a consultative reflexion with MINESEC on the integration of new technologies into the classroom. This will help develop 21st-century skills in learners and enable them take full advantage of their ingenuity and fit-in in our complex and fast-changing world.
MINESEC embraced the cooperation proposal from IBE and expressed interest in working with the UNESCO Institute in the fields of curriculum transformation, distance education, distance evaluation and development virtual laboratories. Other areas of interest, including the development of Blue curricula (for ocean literacy and knowledge), development of condensed educational programmes to be used within three months in case of emergencies, are equally contemplated.
Aimé Ngidjol
CELCOM