Nursery Education: Experts Seek To Increase Enrolment

Information from the United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) indicates that quality pre-primary education has impressive benefits for children, education systems, and society at large. Despite the mounting evidence, there are major gaps in equitable access to early childhood education services, particularly in Cameroon.

It is within this backdrop that experts from UNICEF, Ministry of Basic Education and stakeholders in the sector on Wednesday May 22, 2019 in Yaounde began identifying the strength, challenges and weakness of the preprimary system in the country in a bid to reinforce its capacity to provide quality education to children.

Organized by UNICEF and other part ners, an education consultant from UNICEF Headquarters in New York, Hsiao-Chen Lin, said the organization is out to provide practical support to countries as they seek to develop or strengthen their pre-primary subsector as an integral, well-functioning part of a broader education system. She said the workshop is a stock taking moment on the situation of pre-primary schools in the country and also to develop new policies and approaches that will ensure that nursery schools are strong enough to deliver quality services for young children.

Participants at the workshop had an in-depth analysis on major aspect in the preprimary education amongst which the curriculum, family and community engagement, teachers, planning for equitable services for young children as well as quality assurance for pre-primary education. On behalf of the ...