Africa: Three-year plan to improve education in Africa launched

A three-year plan to address the quality of education in Africa was launched in Tunis on Friday with various education officials from Africa calling for radical reforms to set guidelines for the sector. The programme, which begins in 2011, to be hosted in the Burkina Faso capital, Ouagadougou, is on the theme, 'Education and training in service of Africa’s sustainable development.' Organisers say that the goal is to adapt education mechanisms to train competences to meet the needs expressed by companies and the job market.