1. EDUCATION SECTOR UPDATES RENCP General Assembly 30 July 2015

2. Overall Pre-Primary Net Enrolment Rate (NER) Data trends

3. Overall Primary GER

4. Overall Primary Completion Rate/CR

5. Overall Primary Promotion, Repetition and dropout rate

6. Upper Secondary NER

7. Lower Secondary Dropout Rate by District

8. TVET Trainees

9. Tertiary Profile Type 20132014Increment StudentsStaffInstitutionsStudentsStaffInstitutionsStudentsStaffInstitutions Degree offering institutions 77,1204,8782477,5125,70126 3928232 Diploma offering institutions 7,328782149,501111719 2,1733355 Technical institutions3,43546175,34577812 1,9103175 Colleges of Education2,46510622,3741122 -9160 Schools of Nursing and Midwifery 1,42821551,7822275 354120 Tertiary Education91,7766,4425296,5147,935644,7381,49312

10. Five key sector priorities 1. Develop school curriculum 2. Address the issue of drop-out 3. Infrastructure 4. Equip 12YBE schools with science equipment 5. Increase higher education places

11. Competence-based curriculum and overview of implementation Communication campaign Teacher training programme Revision of national assessment framework Development of new teaching and learning materials Revision of quality standards and monitoring tools

12. Other key issues Learning and LARS Inclusive and Special Needs Education Improved access to school readiness GPE

13. New policy developments Five new policies in progress: Curriculum & Assessment policy Language of Instruction policy Teacher Development and management policy Learning and teaching materials policy Special Needs Education Policy ESSP mid-term review and Education Sector policy, 2003

14. Identified challenges -Increase in school drop-out and repetition rate -Funding gap for implementation of ESSP, and particularly for the new curriculum -Overall decline in percentage of education budget allocated to primary and secondary education; low funding for preprimary -Misalignment between central and local level education planning

15. Changes in Ministry and DP staff Key changes in Ministry of Education: Honourable Minister of Education, Dr. Musafiri Papias Malimba Permanent Secretary, Mr. Celestin Ntivuguruzwa, Director General of REB, Mr. Janvier Gasana Changes in sector co-chairs: DFID, Education Advisors, Paul Atherton & Alice Ching’oma USAID, Lee Marshall, Education Office Director UNICEF, Departure of Hugh Delaney