Early childhood care and education
Increasing Access and Improving Quality: The Experimentation of the Specific Preschool Program in Niger and Its Objectives for Basic Education
Executive Summary, In Niger preschool education is included in basic education According to article 18 of the law on the orientation of the education system LOSEN preschool concerns children aged three to five years It is a preschool initiation of one to three years Currently measures relating to the development of preschool education emanating from the education and training sector programme PSEF 20142024 have reduced the duration of the cycle from 3 to 2 years since the start of the school year in October 2013 Since 2019 Niger has been implementing an experiment in 95 pilot classes in the section2 of kindergartens for direct transfer to the Preparatory Course2 class The affected population is made up of children in the large section aged 5 to 6 years The approach used is participatory experimentation The objectives of the initiative relating to the experimentation of a specific preschool programme allowing children who have benefited from this type of education to directly access the Preparatory Course2 class are as follows Improve the quality of learning Reduce the duration of primary schooling Reduce the cost of schooling per child
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