Education launches 5-year strategic plan

**Ester Hakaala **

The Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sports, Arts and Culture (MEIYSAC) has launched a 2025- 2030 strategic plan which identified improved access to quality education, skills development, youth empowerment and infrastructure development as key priorities.

Speaking during the official launch of the plan, the Director of General Services, Ellencia Hanse, said it seeks to address challenges including limited funding and infrastructure, gaps in learning outcomes and skills development, unequal access to services between rural and urban communities, and weaknesses in governance and performance management.

The plan has eight strategic pillars and 11 strategic objectives aimed at improving education, strengthening teaching and learning, empowering young people, developing schools, promoting arts and culture, expanding infrastructure, investing in research and innovation, and strengthening governance.

The first strategic pillar is equitable access to quality education, which provides an inclusive, equitable, quality education and a safe and healthy learning environment. This pillar seeks to enhance universal access to subsidised quality tertiary education as well as enhancing lifelong learning for sustainable development.

The second pillar of the plan focuses on excellence in teaching and learning, and it aims to strengthen the teaching profession to enhance teaching and learning, and improve access to universal, inclusive digital learning and resources.

Youth empowerment and sport development are also part of the strategic pillars, and they aim to promote youth empowerment and sports development.

Pillar five speaks about arts, culture and creative industries sustainability, aimed at promoting and conserving heritage, arts and culture for sustainable development.

Infrastructure development, advanced research, science, technology and innovation aims to strengthen research, science, technology and innovation for socio-economic advancement.

The last pillar of the plan talks about good governance, stakeholder engagement and operational excellence. This pillar aims to improve operational efficiency for service delivery, enhance stakeholder relations and participation at national and regional, global arena and ensure a responsive regulatory framework.

The plan outlines different challenges that it plans to address, including lack of collaboration between industries, insufficient funding, low student retention and success rates, inadequate teaching and research capacity, dilapidated infrastructure, urban disparities, and lack of a higher education and TVET sector infrastructure plan.

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