Towards open schooling in The Gambia

COL is working with the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, The Gambia, to promote and accelerate the establishment of open schooling to reach out-of-school youth. Support was provided for an expert to prepare a detailed concept plan followed by a national stakeholders consultative meeting in Banjul in early November to finalise the project plan. This project demonstrated to officials that continuity of learning could be supported by sharing appropriate digital content which can be accomplished more quickly and cheaply than creating and distributing printed materials. Projects such as these provide a good foundation to build on for the introduction of open schooling. Dr Tony Mays, COL’s Education Specialist for Open Schooling, represented COL at the meeting and guided the deliberations towards finalising plans.