Rollout of scientific media libraries in the high schools of Madagascar  [ Return towards  Education/Training  ]

The purpose of the EDUCMAD association is to promote and improve the teaching of scientific subjects in Madagascar and is part of the UNESCO school enrollment plan Education For All.

The Air Liquide Foundation is working with EDUCMAD to support the ETICMAD project (Education through Information and Communication Technologies in MADagascar) on rolling out scientific media libraries in four high schools in Antsiranana by equipping each media library with computers and training teachers and students in their use.

In Madagascar, neither textbooks nor school facilities permit science students to do lab work. That is why most of the students major in literature (63% of seniors in the 2007-2008 school year, compared to only 7% majoring in math and physics). Hence the ETICMAD project, through which the association is trying to encourage more engineering and technician careers in Madagascar.

The solution? Providing the high schools of Madagascar with scientific media libraries equipped with computers bringing together pedagogic documents, illustrations, animations, lab work… In this way, high school students can study the scientific subjects in the Madagascan program under the best conditions.

Since its creation, ETICMAD has provided, for 30,000 students, 400 computers to about 40 Madagascan schools. In these high schools, the number of science students has increased by over 20% in high schools. Encouraged by this success, EDUCMAD plans to roll out its media library in 30 new schools divided among several regions in Madagascar by the end of 2010.