A workshop to launch the implementation of harmonized higher education training offers took place on Tuesday May 2 at the office of the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in Lomé. A government initiative, harmonization will make it possible to offer students the same training for the same course and make diplomas and training homogeneous, balanced and valid, both nationally and internationally.
Officials of the ministry and promoters of private establishments during the meeting.
Over the past ten years, the Togolese student population has increased from 54,174 in 2011 to approximately 110,000 in 2022. This growing flow of students has consequences for the education system, in particular the emergence of private higher education institutions. . These establishments, which for a long time only offered higher education at the BTS level, are increasingly offering Bachelor’s and Master’s courses, with the adoption of the LMD system. The absence of official, validated and regularly updated curricula has led private higher education establishments to spontaneously set up training offers in which disparities and inconsistencies are often observed. This situation is not without consequence on the quality of the training offered to learners. To remedy this, the government has dedicated to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, in accordance with the Strategic Plan ” Plan Togo 2025 », the project entitled “Review of the policy of orientation and promotion of vocational training towards priority trades”. Thus, in the execution of this project, declined in 21 operational projects, the ministry carried out a series of activities, in particular the design of the model of the training offers and the harmonization of the curricula of courses Licenses of the private establishments of Higher Education. The official launch of the implementation of these two documents took place yesterday during a workshop which brought together the promoters of higher education institutions. The meeting made it possible to present the model of the training offers drawn up on the basis of the CAMES reference systems and the LMD system, as well as the harmonized training offers. The organizers were thus able to gather the opinions of the promoters for the success of this project.
Progress that will make Togolese higher education more attractive
According to ministry officials, the first document takes stock of the situation, proposes the organization of training, presents the model of the elements of a course, the organization of the contents of the Teaching Units, the models of the License Professional, Professional Master and Doctorate. The second document on the harmonization of Bachelor’s degree course curricula outlines the content of training, the number of hours for each unit, cross-cutting and priority subjects, etc.
On this occasion, the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Prof. Majesty Ihou Wateba, welcomed these advances which will make higher education more attractive and above all which meets international standards. The assimilation time will be three years and after that, licensing and other exams will become national exams. For greater efficiency, he confided, the Head of State has set up the National Quality Assurance Agency, whose role is to steer quality in this sector and ensure that everything which is taught is what must be taught, so that at the level of Togo, a diploma issued in an establishment no longer has to be approved, but is immediately recognized by the State. And the Togolese State will ensure the validity and quality of this diploma internationally. For the Minister, these reforms are a boon for private establishments, because they will be, at this time, real partners of the government which will support them to enable them to be more efficient.
Melissa BATABA
2023-05-03 12:17:50
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