For Nine Years: Strategic Plan for Tertiary Sector Developed

There is also talk among others access to higher education, the internationalization of this sector, employment and infrastructure.

Heads of those universities and higher education met Thursday to put their ideas together to develop a plan that can move this sector. The desire of the ministry is to make Mauritius a knowledge-based economy. "Since this ministry exists, it has never really been able to develop a true strategic plan," said Minister Jeetah. This document will thus be the state of the current situation, while offering opportunities for development. Participants will focus on providing training and restructuring of institutions and the quality of training. The aim of this plan is to be in harmony with the approaches used in higher education internationally and to meet socio-economic needs of the country. During the meeting yesterday, the participants and addressed the following themes: make tertiary education a key pillar in developing economies, the role of tertiary education in innovation and sustainable development towards a market-oriented tertiary education and contemporary issues in this sector. Emphasis was also placed on the importance of cooperation in the sector in order to build a high quality tertiary capacity based on networking, mobility of students and academics, as well as using and innovation institutional. After developing the plan, the document will be submitted to the government. Program to advance this sector at the Ministry of Tertiary Education also aims to support mobility within the university and to encourage collaboration and networking in the field of higher education and research at internationally.

Moreover, the Minister announced yesterday that the steps to start the work for the construction of a campus rife. 50 acres have been obtained for the White Mountain campus. Technicians of the Ministry is currently working on a list of contractors who will be finalized shortly. The ministry later in tendering in April. Construction is expected to begin in mid-2013.