“Pitit se Richès Malere”: Taking a Look at Education Reform to Secure Haiti's Human Capital скачать в хорошем качестве

“Pitit se Richès Malere”: Taking a Look at Education Reform to Secure Haiti's Human Capital

*REFERENCES BELOW* Haiti Policy House invites you to the next session in our Solutions-Oriented Speaker Series (SOS). Where Haitian experts across multiple sectors present practical solutions and approaches to some of Haiti's challenges. Director of Research Dr. Gloria Blaise, Ph.D. and veteran journalist Fritznel Octave, MBA discuss the challenges in Haiti's educational system. They discuss accessibility, food and nutrition insecurity, corruption, oversight, remittances, and past reform. ----- Hebblethwaite, B. (2021). Haiti’s Foreign Language Stranglehold. Foreign Policy Magazine. Fluent French is spoken by 5-10%, meanwhile Haitian Creole is spoken by almost 100%. https://www.statista.com/statistics/7... Those between 0-14 years old make up 32% of Haiti's population https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/... In 2022, remittances made up 22% of Haiti's GDP Luzincourt, K., & Gulbrandson, J. (2010). Education and Conflict in Haiti:. US Institute of Peace. The Bernard Education Reform of 1978 was an attempt to modernize the system and align it with labor market demands(United States Institute of Peace, 2010). According to the 2002–03 education census cited by the World Bank, only 8 percent (1,240) of Haitian schools were public, while approximately 92 percent (14,424) were privately owned and financed, meaning they were tuition-based in most cases. Hurwitz, D. R., & Kambel, E. R. (2020). Redressing language-based exclusion and punishment in education and the Language Friendly School initiative. Forms of punishment for speaking Haitian creole at school included beatings and humiliation. DeGraff, M. (2017). Haiti’s ‘linguistic apartheid’ violates children’s rights and ham-pers development. Open Global Rights, January, 31.The Ministry of Education and Professional Training announced in the 2010-2015 Operational Plan the goal of "balanced bilingualism." https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2... The cost of education and health for Haitians in the DR is about 175 million USD (Dominican Today, 2022). Miner, J. (2013). Migration for Education: Haitian University Students in the Dominican Republic. Haitian students in the Dominican Republic receive as much as $1000 USD every month from families abroad to support the cost of their education(Miner, 2013) https://haitiantimes.com/2019/01/02/f... Lawsuit alleges Haitian government and wire transfer companies like Western Union, Unitransfer and CAM defrauded the Haitian Diaspora out of millions of dollars through $1.50 fee on money transfers to Haiti (Haitian Times, 2019).