At the opening of the national consultations on the agenda for the transformation of higher education, on Thursday in Dakar, President Bassirou Diomaye Faye delivered a strong message to students of literary series (L1, L1, L2). “I am convinced that our tens of thousands of bachelors in L1, L1 or L2 are capable, thanks to an adapted framework and an appropriate pedagogy, of becoming doctors, agronomists, computer scientists, pharmacists or even data analysts”. The President calls for breaking the traditional cloisonnement of the education sector, inherited according to him from an outdated colonial model, and to reorient higher education towards the country’s strategic needs. “Our higher education system must emerge from its comfort zone which does not allow it to reproduce a colonial heritage. It has to sublimate itself, to reinvent itself, to offer a new economy, a new society, another cultural space”. To this end, the institutions must take care of the professional integration of their students from the outset of their training by putting in place the necessary arrangements for success.
Diomaye Faye wants to transform the literary world into doctors, computer scientists and engineers of…
