Minister of Foreign Affairs, Migration and Tunisians Abroad Nabil Ammar commended the launch of the African Union’s theme for 2024: ‘Building resilient education systems for increased access to inclusive, lifelong, quality and relevant learning for Africa.’
In the margins of his participation in the 44th session of the Executive Council of the African Union on February 14-15, the Minister affirmed that ensuring access to compulsory and free education is fundamental to the Tunisian State, which has since independence accorded the education field the utmost importance as the lever of social progress and development both in Tunisia and in Africa.
Ammar called according to a department press release, to foster partnership between the public and private sectors, cooperation with civil society, and to exert the necessary efforts at the continental level to improve technical and vocational education curricula and to promote innovation and research.
He further called for stepping up women’s participation in the sc
ience and technology fields for a prosperous educational, scientific and technological future for Africa, to which Tunisia is proud to belong, he said.
Source: Agence Tunis Afrique Presse