2. Some disturbing indicators!
800 children are born each day in Haiti
• 570 will enroll in primary school
• Of those 467 (82%)will be in private schools based on
tuition paid by parents
• 157 out of the 570 will achieve elementary school
• 70 will complete high school
• 7 will make it to college
• Between 5 and 6 out of the 7 college graduates will
leave the country (especially for USA and Canada).
3. 1. Access to education is low ….
Primary and Secondary Net Enrollment Rates
Source: Haiti data based on the 2002/2003 school census. Other data from the UNESCO Global Monitoring Report. and
World Bank World Education Database
4. 2. Public spending is very low …
Source: Latest available estimates 2000 through 2006. Haiti: MENFP, 2007; Other countries: CEPAL
2007, UNESCO 2010.
5. … and private spending is among the
highest in the world
Share of Private Spending as a % of Total Education Expenditure
0% 50% 100%
Ghana
Venezuel Indonesia Uganda Haiti
a Peru
6. 3. Education tends to be non public
Public and Non‐Public Primary Enrollment Public and Non‐Public Secondary Enrollment
Sources: Haiti: 2002/2003 School Census; Latin America and Nicaragua: UNESCO Global Monitoring Report; Honduras:
Secretaría de Educación.
7. 4. Quality is low
Teachers lack training…
Trained Teachers in Primary Education as a Proportion of Total Teachers
Source: Haiti School Census 2002/2003; World Bank Education Database 2008; EFA 2009. The LAC indicator is the median.
11. Université Quisqueya (UniQ)
Non profit private university created in 1990
Partnership between business sector and
Academia
Recognition of “public interest” by Executive
Order
2,000 students/ 300 faculties
Six Schools:
Education
Medicine
Science, Engineering and Architecture
Economics/Business Administration
Agriculture and Environment
32. CAN WE LEARN IN (FROM) THE STREET?
OUR STRATEGY: THREE STEPS
I. Crash Course: Concepts, Methods, Tools
II. Deployment : Groups of 5 to 10 students to the camps; 1
professor coaching.
III. Meeting in “classroom”:
Draw the lessons from experience
Improving tools
Forging new concepts
Institutionalizing informal knowledge.
34. THE DIFFICULTY TO BE PERTINENT
In 387 BC Platon created the Academia in Athens (the
first university in the world, closed in 529 by Justinien)
School is among the structures most resistant to change
(Principle of inertia, Newton)
2000 years after, what is the result?
Failure of the traditional models?
How does the didactic transposition influence the content
of teaching? What is the distance between what we teach
and reality?
The market dynamics of scientific research: a Pattern of
Redundancy, Generalities, and Repetitions
As this leads to the loss of meaning and irrelevance
40. A NEW PARADIGM
FOR HIGHER EDUCATION?
THE CONCEPT OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF UNIVERSITY
THE SYMMETRY OF SOCIAL CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
THE ANSWER OF A 70 YEARS OLD HAITIAN PEASANT : A POSSIBLE INSPIRATION
“If I had to go back to school, the school should be a place where I can learn
To practice solidarity
To love my country
To practice the respect for life, for human dignity and for our environment
To discover and love the history and the cultural heritage of my country
To solve problems and be able to learn by myself from the school of life
To be creative and to generate wealth
To learn many languages to be able to understand and communicate with many brothers
and sisters in the planet
To be a good father, a good husband, a good brother and a good citizen of great moral
integrity”
A QUESTION FOR ALL OF US, IN HAITI
Which schools, which universities teach or investigate those issues?