Matam Jul 21 (APS) – The Minister of National Education, Mamadou Talla, announced Thursday in Matam that his department is finalizing an extremely important reform on the Brevet de fin d’études Moyens (BFEM).
”At the level of the ministry, we are finalizing an extremely important reform on the BFEM. From next year, there will be another method which will make it possible to shorten the number of assessment days and to take into account continuous checks and what has been done during the year,” he said. declared.
Mr. Talla spoke thus following a visit to three examination centers in the municipalities of Ourossogui and Matam for the purposes of the BFEM examination.
He was accompanied by the governor of the region, Mouhamadou Moctar Watt, the sub-prefect of Matam, Souleymane Ndiaye and education stakeholders including IEF, Mot Kane and IA, Mbaye Babou.
“The second important reform is that we are reviewing the curricula,” he said.
The programs, he stressed, ”should be backed by a vision and respond to a need”, because ”the Senegal of tomorrow is built with human capital, formed first in our schools”.
Thus, ”we are therefore going to revisit our programs at the level of history, at the level of culture but, relying above all on digital as an essential lever to support all education, whether in science and technology ”, the minister said.
Returning to his visit to Matam, Mamadou Talla underlined that ”this is the first time that a supervision trip has been organized outside the regions of Dakar and Thiès”.
“So it’s also important that we can go around the interior of the country because we have a school for everyone, a school for everyone,” he explained.
According to him, the BFEM exams take place in very good conditions throughout the national territory.
”We have visited three colleges and so far it is going very well. We have not noticed any problems and there is also the presence of the students, that of the supervisors, presidents of juries, security, ”he argued.
”And apart from Matam, he adds, ”what also emerged at the national level, in the sixteen academies, the exams started in excellent conditions”.
Mamadou Talla acknowledged that it “is not easy to organize this exam where there are more than 179,000 candidates, 12,000 supervisors”. ”But the arrangements made so far have borne fruit to such an extent that even the rain has had no impact on the normal course of the process”, he rejoiced.
He also magnified the very good results obtained by the CFEE and baccalaureate candidates.
”We noted at the CFEE a very high leap in terms of results. At the baccalaureate level, we are also at 80% of the results that have come out and, for the moment, we have exceeded the number of Very Good mentions from last year, ”he said.
This means, according to him, that ”we are in a dynamic of success which has been established in Senegal for three years”.
As such, he assured that his department will also ensure that this “pedagogy of success is permanently established”.