Educational Governance in Maldives

Educational
Governance in
Maldives
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Introduction
 Governance in Maldives
 Constitutional right for education
 Legal accountability in education and
educational institutions
 Role of the stakeholders
 Challenges in educational governance in the Maldives
 Recommendations

Background of The
Research
 The population of Republic of Maldives is approximately
250000 and it is distributed among 200 islands and 20% of
the population resides at Male, the capital of Maldives.
 When the government of the country took this decision, it
was seen that schooling under this new system was
structured in 5-2-3-2 cycle; where the first 5 years of
academic learning of the students lead to a two years
schooling in middle schools.
 It can be said that the Government of Maldives wants to
redesign the educational structure of the country in order to
be able to appreciate and understanding of the changes that is
taking place in the economic and social life of the country.

Governance in Maldives
 The Maldivian constitution allow access of primary and
secondary education to all the children (Gupta, 2017).
The Maldives constitute of the literacy rate of 98.61% as
of in 2014.
 In Maldives, all the functions and the governing
authority in charge for qualification is the Maldives
Qualification Authority (MQA).
 The governance in Maldives also includes the
remarkable development in education with the
introduction of Information communication technology
(ICT).