Press Release - Creating a skilled workforce requires better access to quality basic education
Africa should improve the quality of basic education to ensure a skilled workforce that will create more and better jobs to drive economic transformation on the continent.
Data shows that nearly a quarter of the children enrolled at the primary level do not complete primary education while less than 50% of young boys and girls complete lower secondary education, compared to around 80% in South Asia and Latin American countries. Worse still the tertiary level enrollment rate is less than 10%.
The two-day Expert Group Meeting has drawn technical experts from 16 countries including experts from government, academia, think tanks, and the United Nations system to review the key findings of the draft report, Jobs in Africa or Jobs for Africans. The UNECA supports Member States through the convening function, which supports the identification of key collective challenges facing the continent along with appropriate responses.
Ms. Saxena said expert group meetings were important for the UNECA as they contributed to the Commission fulfilling its core mandate of promoting economic and social development among our member States. She lamented that the"loss of skills is worrisome for countries in Africa that already suffer from low human capital. As tertiary and professional education are financed from severely limited public education budgets, in effect poor African countries implicitly subsidize rich countries through migration of highly skilled labour."
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