Source: School Directory 2011-2012
The senior high school was also strongly involved in the extensive school enrolment
development movement in Congo. And its numbers have almost tripled from 26,411 in 2003
to 73,959 students in 2013. This effort is mainly due to the state’s efforts since the private
component hardly changed, even decreased slightly from 7% to 6%.
As for TBS, is has doubled from 13% in 2003 to 26% in 2012.
Technical and vocational education
The situation of technical and vocational education differs from the general trends in the
general education.
Table 31: Trend of the number of students and teachers of technical and vocational education
between 2003 and 2013
Year
Students Teachers RST
Total
Girls
% Girls
Total
Women
%Women
2003
40 716
22 071
54.21
1 196
254
21.24
2005
42 908
22 872
53.30
3 368
578
17.16
2008
31 192
18 277
58.60
1 913
412
21.54
2011
35 679
15 870
44.48
2 659
848
31.89
2013
43 135
23 639
54.80
2 228
546
24.50
Description: Tea = Teachers;. W = Women; RST = Ratio Students / Teachers
43.04
12.74
16.31
13.42
19.36
Source: Directorate of Studies and Planning METP
We must first highlight the irregular change in numbers of teachers who, having almost
tripled between 2003 and 2005, lost 43.20% of their members in the space of two school
years. Women are in the minority among teachers. The school population has evolved on an
identical fashion, even if it took place less erratically, from 42,908 in 2005 to 31,192 in 2008,
a loss of 23.30%.
As for the number of schools, it has not changed in ten years. According to the Directorate of
Studies and Planning, Congo accounts for 45 apprenticeship centres (CM) and technical
colleges (CET), 15 technical colleges and 11 vocational schools, 71 technical schools in total.
This atypical trend can be explained by two reasons. First, the technical and vocational
education is affected by major weaknesses in the collection and processing of statistical data.
Also, data for the private sector are not available. And we know the important role of the
private initiative in increasing the education provision for the past two decades, even though
in technical and vocational education, it tends to be confined in the tertiary sectors, which are
less demanding in terms of investment.
Literacy and Non-Formal Education
With regard to literacy, a fairly strong recovery can be noted, though somewhat irregular,
after many closures and destruction of literacy centres due to armed conflicts of the 1990s.
Table 32: Trend of literacy centres, facilitators and auditors (2000- 2012)
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