VISION 2030

Implications for school leadership

Intended learning outcomesBy the end of session the CPs should be

able to:Identify the link between education and

training with vision 2030.Identify the relevance of vision 2030 for

school leadership?Identify the challenges linked to

realisation of vision 2030 and how to address them.

• What is vision 2030?• Why vision 2030?

Genesis of vision 2030

• Part of the economic recovery strategy for wealth and employment creation (ERS) as a the 21st centaury strategy.

• Informed by Millennium development Goals MDG’s

MDGs• eradicate extreme hunger & poverty• Achieve UPE• Promote gender equality and empower

women• Reduce child mortality• Improve maternal health• Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria & other

diseases• Ensure environmental sustainability• Develop global partnership for

development

Education and vision 2030• Education and training is to provide

“Globally Competitive Quality Education and Training for Sustainable Development”

• This is in line with International

commitments to education and training e.g. attainment of EFA and Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) by 2015 in alignment with vision 2030

Examples of Global Educ strategies towards 2030

Cuba aims for university level education for its entire population,

Trinidad aims at providing access to free education for every child at all levels

Barbados is to have one tertiary trained person in every household by 2020.

New Zealand education is decentralized; individual institutions are largely responsible for their own governance and management

Kenya's aim for vision 2030

• It is Kenya ‘s long-term development blueprint for 2008 to 2030.

• It aims to transform Kenya into a newly industrialising, “middle-income country providing a high quality life to all its citizens by the year 2030”

Make Kenya globally competitive and prosperous

3pillars of vision 2030

Source: NESC Vision workshop, January 13–14 2006, Naivasha, Kenya

Plans and implementation

Vi-sion

Strategy ECONOMICTo maintain a

sustained economic growth of 10% p.a. over

the next 25 years

SOCIALA just cohesive

equitable development in a clean secure environment

POLITICAL issue-based, people-

centered, result-oriented, accountable

democratic political system

Overarching visionA globally competitive and

prosperous nation with a high quality of life by 2030

Why Social pillar? Education & training• Education and training are emerging as

key drivers of a country’s competitiveness.

• Globally, knowledge drives and transforms economies(Knowledge economy).

• The educational level of a country determines the stage of its economic development and potential for future growth.

How?Education enables the development of

human capital, potential and competitive workforce.

It is a social indicator of a country’s economic development

It is the stock and quality of a country’ human capital

formal education is one of several important contributors to the skills and socialisation of an individual world over.

Outcome Education is development.• It creates choices and opportunities

for people, • reduces the twin burdens of poverty

and diseases in line with the MDGs• gives one a stronger voice in society.• For nations it creates a dynamic

workforce and well-informed citizens able to compete and cooperate globally – opening doors to economic and social prosperity.

Responsibilities

• T-Time keeper• C-Chairman• R-Resource mobilizer• P-Presenter• S-Secretary

Key Issues from Education & training• Access(A)• Quality(Q)• Equity(E)• Relevance(R)• Institutional management(IM)• Environment(En)

• Discuss at least 2 issues governing education and planning (allotted to your group)

• Share the findings with the rest of the class

Activity 2

Envision this...

“Children entering school today will engage in careers that have not yet

been invented, but will become

obsolete within their lifetime”(Jamaica towards vision 2030;2009)

Activity . Group work• Based on today’s discussion on vision

2030, outline how the following aspects of schooling practices can be developed/improved:

•A) school management•B) curriculum •C) school culture/ethos•D) teaching and learning •E) Resource management•F) Quality of school graduates

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