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the following criteria: the country’s requirements in terms of higher executive level personnel, the
choice of candidates and the reception capacity of the Faculties and Institutes.
- Concerning higher executive level personnel, it should be pointed out that no objective study has
ever been carried out to determine the requirements per sector of activity.
- The reception capacity of both school and academic infrastructure is becoming more and more
limited.
- The educational programmes are badly designed and inappropriate. In effect the predominance of
lectures does not sufficiently involve the participation of the students.
- The domestic output of Higher Education is low: the success rate, especially in first year, is
relatively low; the average duration of the training programme always tends to be extended due to
repeated failures.
- The training of higher education trainers is badly planned while the loss of interest in higher
education careers is present even among the teachers of higher education.
For instance, out of 141 Teachers in the University of Burundi who were trained abroad in 19961999, 73 Teachers did not come back after the prescribed period. Nonetheless the student numbers
have continued to increase.
Article 22: The Right to Development
The Provinces most seriously affected by food insecurity are first of all those of the North East of the
country (Cankuzo, Karusi, Muyinga, Ngozi and Kirundo) with more than 63% of the households in a
situation of food insecurity. On the other hand the poorest in terms of assets and income are said to
be those of the North West (Cibitoke, Bubanza and Rural Bujumbura) mainly because of the conflict
which perdured there in 2008. Altogether close to two thirds of the households affected by food
insecurity living in only 5 Provinces: 16.8% in Ngozi, 4.3% in Muyinga, 13% in Karusi, 10.5% in
Cibitoke and 10.5% in rural Bujumbura.