As part of its leadership's strategic thinking around quality of education in Senegal and in order to help meet the challenges facing the system, the School Group Tierno Sileymaani BAAL (GSTS BAAL) has developed an extensive upgrade program called Total Quality Strategy (TQS) that includes two sections:
The GSTS BAAL TQS ambition is to provide quality education for underprivileged children in the suburbs of Dakar to allow them full access to their right to education.
The TQS quality section includes Quality Education Improvement Program through science (QEIPS). The QEIPS objectives are multifold :
At school level, the GSTS BAAL aims to:
At the political level, the school intends to undertake action research activities to document the processes and results of the experiment rigorously so as to provide factual evidence which all project stakeholders, including the Ministry of Education, will exploit to engage in policy dialogue and advocacy around factors concerning the improvement of the quality of education. The objective of QEIPS is that a private initiative can serve as a catalyst in the formulation of relevant,consistent and cost-effective education policies at national or sub-regional level.
At systemic level, the GSTS BAAL hopes to encourage Senegal private education stakeholders to see themselves not only as service providers but also as actors and, then, an integral part of the definition of the sector policy by daring to experiment and take initiatives, with the ambition to contribute to improving the quality of national education.
The QEIPS consists of a mix of inputs:
(i) a science building providing for each of the science discipline in the Senegalese curriculum an amphitheatre for face-to-face lessons and and equipped laboratory for practical work / experiments
(ii) a multimedia room for the acquisitions of skills necessary for life long learning in every walk of life
Furthermore, because the QEIPS is designed as an experimental laboratory of innovations for improving the quality of education, its following components are of paramount importance:
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