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Educ
ation Minister Kader Asmal says the world has shifted from
education for lifetime employment to education for lifelong
learning.
"This of course means that educational opportunity cannot be
provided in traditional ways, requiring students to attend fixed
locations at fixed times for a lengthy period.
"We have to provide opportunities that fit with the constraints and
exploit the possibilities of the complex and demanding lives of
learners," he said on the second day of the All-Africa Minister's
Conference on Open Learning and Distance Education, at Cape Town's
International Convention Centre. Professor Asmal however warned
people to guard against the introduction and adoption of distance
education and associated new technologies.
"Unless we do so, we are in danger of once again turning our
countries and continent into laboratories for educational
experiments for external agencies, the failure of which in past
decades has done untold damage to our educational system," he
said.
Highlighting other perils that people on the continent should guard
against, the minister spoke out against increasing enrolments with
little regard for the quality of the learning experience. He also
warned against the poor quality of programmes on offer, which had
little or no relevance to skills and human resources development
needs. – BuaNews.
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