Send this page to someone	Close

The education: Fondation of our destiny

In the name of transparency the new governors, making the most of a record transition period of nine years, have not stopped deluging the Rwandans and the international community with chatter and confused and incoherent reports which merely result in rendering opaque discriminatory practices and revealing to the public eye serious insufficiencies in the management of public affairs. We are Rwandan, but we do not all enjoy the same chances.

So what to do? A change of policy seems to be necessary. It cannot be otherwise. It makes itself obligatory.

In similar conditions the repeated calls to solidarity and national cohesion can have no mobilising effect, given the huge frustration of the numerous victims of exclusion and marginalisation. Rwandans from all levels of the administration wish to take part in the management of their country, but not at all costs and above all they do not want to be pawns, “yes men”, or instruments of power.

Confronted with all these difficulties it is time to move to political action, to enthuse the Rwandan people with a new hope. We must re-establish in full their legitimacy, their primacy and their sovereignty for development of our country, Rwanda.  

The development of the country is the formula by which we are going to construct the knowledge to all levels, to progress in our understanding of the outside world and to begin to solve the complex problems that arise to the Rwandan society today. It is the path toward a backing of our health in social economy,  and the elevation of our standard of living damaged by the successive dictatorships in these last years. 

While leaving there from the example of the development of the country and the economic raise, the teaching and the education helping, the Forum on the Rwandan standard of living could entail the whole country in this direction, encouraging briskly the setting up of a " development of the systematic pays " for the whole country. The challenge that the definition of this gait represents would be, first, to create an environment that encourages the innovation in our country, then to finalize of the adequate tools of measure so that we can value and can compare our progress concerning innovation. 

The strategy founds on a more massive investment in the universities will serve precursor and backing first of our development and the innovation in the different Prefectures (districts), but also the contribution of other advantages: 

    - to confer some diplomas to a bigger number of really qualified people, 

    - to increase the capacities of research, innovation and national development, 

   -to encourage the transmission of the knowledge to the Rwandese society through the intermediary of research  academic, their applications, so that to activate a culture of the innovation. 

The approach of the excellence, the merit and the innovation by the partnership with other universities, higher education, the transmission of the knowledge and the formation of highly qualified people, is a means to raise the challenge of the development of Rwanda. It is in the Rwandan community that students and researchers participating in the cooperative programs of teaching will find work and will contribute to the regional and national economy. The collaboration between the university and the regional partners will be encouraged. The change and a scientific contribution culture will widen the range of the innovation, of the creativeness. If we work to the backing of platforms of Districts and national creativeness while investing in our schools and universities, we will help our regions to become platforms of development and we will reinforce our national economy. 

The investment in the universities, in the teaching and the training, and in research 

and the development is a direct way to improve the Rwandan standard of living. An education of quality of the kindergarten to the university will improve the standard of living of a Rwandan at a time. But, in the same time, research and the transmission of the knowledge done by the university in partnership with the public administration, the enterprises and the industry will allow the researchers to widen their work and to contribute more efficiently to the program of development of Rwanda. 

In each of our prefectures, we should motivate all educational, commercial, industrial institutions,..., that encourage the innovation and the creativeness. By there same, we will construct some communities more civic and more prosperous, so to improuve development a better Rwanda.

We "should promote, to all levels, a new dynamics of education to the citizenship, centered on the respect of the human dignity, with the efficient exemption from payment of the primary education, and proceed to the considerable growth of the strengths, and a considerable expansion of the number of professors, to the levels secondary and superior. " 

Before the problems of poverty of the population, next to other constraints of lack of liberty, of abusive confinement, of injustice social et other violations of the human rights, we cannot remain indifferent, since the role of the education remains capital to leave once for all of this infernal cycle  of "unjustified misfortunes".    

We cannot accept that Rwandan be characterized inappropriately  or subjective concepts as the divisionism either pretext. It is easy to accuse ex cathedra someone of divisionism. The only manner to make disappear it is to banish the exclusions and the injustices that are denounced continually by the human rights, organizations while encouraging the education, in order to eradicate illiteracy in our country. 

That the education for all, source of progress, either a reality in our country!