EducationResearch Ideas

Port-au-PrinceMarch 2016

Working with 30-50 economists including Nobel Laureates, 100+ sector experts, government, donor organizations, civil society, development agencies, businesses, youth, across rural and urban areas to identify, analyze and prioritize interventions that will deliver greater benefit per gourde spent, helping move Haiti towards a more prosperous long term future.

Copenhagen Consensus Center organized roundtable discussions

with an aim to figure out smarter solutions to the most problematic

issues facing Haiti.

These roundtables are one of several sources

for research ideas.

Research Ideas

Governance;(1 of 3)

• Develop a community education policy.• Develop an education policy for marginalized children.• Establish a coordination and monitoring mechanism

between actions and actors in the sector.• Develop a policy given the employment needs and the

needs of the country.• Develop and implement a system that allows

stakeholders in the education system to know and better manage resources (transparency).

• Strengthen the MENPF’s capacity to adhere to international standards.

Governance; (2 of 3)

• Develop a policy for every type of student: students who have repeated a grade, older students etc. including separating students within a classroom.

• Add civic education to the national curriculum.• Establish departmental regulations: standards on

school management; curricula; standards on human resources; back to school; building standards in schools and the rehabilitation of school buildings.

• Plan for time changes (daylight savings).• Development and implementation of a policy on

extracurricular activities.• Bill on the nomenclature of educational institutions.

Governance; (3 of 3)

• Develop a policy for the regulation of the education system by the MENFP in partnership with the private sector.

• Install a regional monitoring program for schools.

Vocational Training and Higher Education; (1 of 1)

• Increase the capacity of institutions of higher education• Review of the application of private sector i.e. identify

the grade level required for any type of employment; and define performance indicators for each one.

• Provide tax benefits, subsidies, etc. to electrify vocational schools.

• Support professional schools - projects, grants, etc.• Bring order to the vocational training system by a

management / supervisory board; keep track of their performance (monitoring).

Education; (1 of 3)

• Make a diagnosis of human resources available to who should be trained and how; identify the amount of teachers needed in every field and at every level; masters training program; Mise-à-niveau of teachers on using the national curriculum (develop a master guide); Increase the number of teacher training institutions; using ICT for distance training of teachers; Make the EFACAP capable of forming teacher training centers.

• Adaptation of learning techniques to the Haitian reality: Bloom Taxonomy; Improve the capacity for synthesis, analysis, observation and evaluation in written and oral.

Education; (2 of 3)

• Professional enhancements to improve the quality of education:

A. Increase teacher salaries based on their experience and skills.B. Improving the quality of teaching materials.C. Pay arrear wages and pay on time.D. Promote the prestige of the profession.E. Enhance learning techniques.

• A national needs assessment to determine what level of education should be prioritized i.e. preschool, primary, secondary, technical, vocational, higher.

Education; (3 of 3)

• Form networks of schools for peer-to-peer training for teachers and school leaders.

• Improve teaching strategies to improve competency in reading, math and writing.

Language; (1 of 1)

• Strengthen the capacity of the Creole Academy. • Develop and implement a bilingual policy in education

after making a comparative study of multi- or bilingual nations like Rwanda, China and the countries of Eastern Europe.

• Publish all documentation of the Ministry in two languages.

Preschool, elementary and secondary education; (1 of 2)

• Increasing reading skills development during preschool. • Raising awareness among parents in rural areas on the

importance of education.• Provide universal access to preschool education.• Change the language of instruction in preschool and

elementary school to Creole.• Fairs and interscholastic competitions to promote the

importance of regular schooling in rural areas.• Psychosocial support for students, including materials,

supervision, coaching, etc.

Preschool, elementary and secondary education; (2 of 2)

• Use of religious institutions to promote educational priorities.

• Increase the amount of public schools (14% currently)• Electrification of schools.

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