DQAF mission Mauritius 2011

Latest revision as of 05:24, 15 October 2012

FINDINGS OF THE DQAF

The major themes extrapolated from the situational analysis have been summarised and are presented below:

Strengths

• Professionalism
• Respect of Schedule
• Support from CSO and CISD
• Good collaboration / very dedicated behaviour from HT and Zones

Data quality issues

• Legal framework to updated in order to provide clear distribution of responsibilities
  • Statistics acts, Data protection act, education act
  • Pressure on private institutions
• Scope / lack of coordination with other bodies / Lack of statistical expertise
  • TEC:
  • TVET: pb of overlap with MoE
  • Financial: a lot of information available, a lot to be done but needs not presented
• Response rate: quite good but could be improved monitoring the returns but more support from the MoE is needed
• Timeliness – EMIS confusion concept – expression of needs
• Accuracy / Reliability : Inconsistances in filling the questionnaire / Visits
• Meta data and information on available data

Access to available data

• Weakness of statistical system in terms of providing access to users
• Clarify the notion of EMIS

Capacities in Sector performance analysis to inform policy reforms

• Overload
• Staffing / institutional arrangements / Lack of research and evaluation unit
• Lack clear information needs expression

Management and micro planning issues

• Less constraints on quality but needs of real time data
• SAMS must be encourage / lot of frustration from the staff involved in its design.
• This would have allow improvement of management at all levels for improving efficiency of the system (though necessary decentralisation) and avoiding duplication

Overall Recommendations

• Participation to the current revision of stats act
• Improve communication with CSO, other education bodies and internally to the MoE
• Reinforce the capacity of the MoE in planning and strategic management
• Staff / Institutional arrangements: Research and analysis, positioning the EMIS structure at a strategic level in the organisation where it can serve all needs in the MoE including providing national statistics
• Reviving the EMIS Committee: Education sector M&E working group at sector level (MoE, CSO, …
  • Ensuring production of quality national and sector statistics

(Assessing the needs, streamlining the data collection, benefiting from expertise of all participants)

• Production of regular materials based on evidence for informing strategic management
• Conduct an introductory CB exercise for ESA / desk review / Information needs inventory
• Side visits to school
• Improving access to data
• MoE needs to liaise with the MoF to ensure that the dev of statistics for education are properly included in NSDS