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Appointed new Minister of National Education and Literacy on April 6, 2021 in the first Patrick Achi government, Mariatou Koné, whose appointment was unanimous, has all the cards to redress the Ivorian school, classified in the depths.
And several actions militate in its favor
His professional career works in his favor
Anthropology professor at Félix Houphouët-Boigny University in Abidjan, professor Mariatou Koné and an Ivorian politician. Appointed head of the Ministry of National Education and Literacy, the professional career of Mariatou Koné militates in her favor to meet the challenge of the level of the Ivorian school.
Sociologist and anthropologist, Mariatou Koné is the first Ivorian woman Professor of Anthropology. A graduate of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) France, she has been a teacher-researcher since January 1995.
She was General Director of the National Social Cohesion Program (PNCS) and the first female Director of the Institute of Ethnosociology (IES) of the University Félix Houphouët Boigny (Côte d’Ivoire).
Minister of Solidarity, Social Cohesion and Compensation for Victims from 2016 to 2017, Minister of Women, Child Protection and Solidarity from 2017 to 2018, she was Minister of Solidarity, of Social Cohesion and the Fight against Poverty 2018 to 2021, before being entrusted, the portfolio of National Education, and Literacy on April 6, 2021, in the government Patrick Achi.
Expert and international consultant in several fields, her fields of research cover several fields. In particular land, rural development, gender, health, education and social cohesion.
In view of this journey, Mariatou Koné remains a mine of skills that the government has certainly not finished exploiting.
The first actions taken
As soon as she was appointed, she called for the general estates of the school to be made into the general estates of the school, in order to diagnose the ailments that undermine the Ivorian school to the point of being classified today at the bottom of the board. On this point, several questions posed by the average citizen were raised by the Minister. In particular the distribution of textbooks offered by the World Bank to students, Why do our school supplies end up on the markets? Why do 100% of our schoolchildren not receive school kits when the State buys many more kits than the number of pupils?
But before these long-awaited meetings, she had meetings with the actors of the education system, meetings during which she showed her determination to reverse the trend of a school that places Côte d’Ivoire at the bottom of the table.
In order to be able to meet the challenge, she announced the evaluation of the students, in order to gauge their real level, promising to punish those guilty of falsified results.
“I want these exams to reflect the reality of the skills acquired by our students. These exams must take place in unprecedented transparency which reflects the realities of learning,” she called.
The regional directors and the inspectors of the establishments which will also be evaluated, the minister asked them to “not compete to be the best school principal while (their) children do not know much.”
Support from international organizations and parents of students
In these actions to place the Ivorian school at an acceptable level initially, the head of this ministerial department benefits from the support of the World Bank. It received a delegation from the Bank, led by the Director of Operations in Côte d’Ivoire, Caroline Gevers, who reaffirmed her availability to support the Ivorian government in the organization of the States General. In more precise terms, the Bank wants to provide support to the ministry for the implementation of the recommendations that will emerge from these national consultations.
In addition to the World Bank, Mariatou Koné benefits from the support of the parents of students and even of all the actors of the education system who see in her, the person indicated to raise the level of the Ivorian school which is in the hollow. of the wave.
In view of all the above, it will be enough for the new minister to have free rein to succeed in her mission. It is for her, for the government and for the parents who have for essential concern, the raising of the level of the school.
Lambert KOUAME
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