African being a continent that has always depended on westerners and Europeans for education aid and other funds in order to help improve the education system in 53 countries. They are quite a number of issues affecting African education system and help transform the economic potential of Africa. This funding has helped and has played major roles in taking the African education system into another level, the funds helps mainly in sustaining the capacity of students in the educational institutions.
As up to now it is widely experienced and known that the impact expected in education systems in Africa because of the development experienced in economic growth is not met as it is expected, alternative educational developments systems should be brought up to fill in the gap between development outcomes and education in future. Putting into consideration how education has impacted economy in African countries is in question, due to this it has been suggest that new patterns to try implement on development of education systems.
Many African countries have not reformed their education system since the colonial period, and when new problems face the education system it’s very hard to resolve these issues due to lack of useful information. Below is an elaboration of number of factors affecting the education system in Africa?
- Globalization
- Finance
- Quality of education
- Poor school management
- Poor learning facility
Globalization
- Globalization has been a major influence in changing capitalism in human development, which also poses challenges in the development of African educational systems. In consideration of globalization African schools and universities are supposed to produce excellent students who should land in scholarships, and competent individuals to compete in the economic growth.
Finance
- In order for a good education system to run it will require financial stability for the system to make root and be able to adapt appreciably over the next decades.
Quality of education
- In implementing the education system in Africa can be challenging considering the quality of education practiced in all African countries, it will be important. This is one of the toughest challenges in the education system and it can only be reformed by the society whereby the quality of life experienced by individuals by putting in consideration they abide the morals of the community by value, ethical conduct, honesty, and few other positive characteristics.
Poor schools management
- Poor school management has been a major influence that leads to problems facing education systems in Africa, due to poor management schools and improper use of school funds, by the management it has led to one of major challenges facing the education system.
Poor learning facilities
- Many African countries have faced major negative factors in the education sector, such as civil war, draught, finance and many more factors. These learning factors include poor classrooms, books, writing materials, desks and teachers funds. Due to poor management and greediness of major school managers, it has led to poor development in the education system in Africa.