Higher Education Project

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The long-term objective of the Higher Education Project is to improve higher education graduation rates and gender equity, with greater cost-effectiveness and more relevance for Senegal's economic development. To this end, the project will help the government refocus the activities of its two universities around their pedagogic mission, while reinforcing management capacity and quality control. Specific objectives are as follows: 1) to reinforce library services; 2) to improve teaching; 3) to improve research; 4) to develop a maintenance system; 5) to strengthen management and public and private financing; and 6) to complete the reorganization of student services. The project comprises the following four main components: 1) improvement of library services which will include: (a) expansion and rehabilitation of the central library of the Cheikh Anta Diop University of Dakar; and (b) acquisition of books and periodicals/library management; 2) upgrading of teaching and research consisting of: (a) reinforcement of applied science teaching; (b) development and pilot testing of an accreditation system; (c) management of a university research fund; (d) study of alternative models for teaching and financing; and (e) information of computerized information service; 3) strengthening of management capacity involving: (a) reorganization of student services; (b) development of maintenance system; and (c) project administration; and 4) refinancing of 3 project preparation facility advances.