Educational Governance in Maldives: AVID College EDG 906 Report

This report provides an overview of educational governance in the Maldives, highlighting the constitutional right to education and the legal accountabilities of educational institutions. It discusses the roles of various stakeholders, including teachers, students, parents, educationalists, and ministry officials. The report identifies challenges such as geographical isolation, lack of trained teachers, and limited technological infrastructure. Recommendations include developing teacher training programs and investing in technology. The report concludes by emphasizing the Ministry of Education's efforts to improve education quality through technology and the need for adequate teacher training. This assignment was completed for AVID College's EDG 906 Educational Governance course.

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).

Constitutional Right for
Education
 Article 29 of the constitution mentions that every citizen of
Maldives have the right to achieve and profess knowledge and
learning.
 The constitution right to education which is rendered by Article
29is strengthened by Article 36(a). The article clearly mentions
that education is a fundamental right which every citizen of
Maldives is entitled without discrimination. Section 36(b) provides
that primary and secondary education should be provided by the
Government of Maldives.
 Section 36 (c) of the constitutions mentions that the education
system in Maldives aims to install love for Islam, promote human
rights and fraternity among all people (Bajaj& Kidwai, 2016).

Legal Accountability in Education
and Educational Institutions
 The state of Maldives provides education at primary level,
secondary level, higher secondary level and at college level.
 This situation requires the educational institutions in
Maldives imparting education be legally responsible while
educating their students.
 They should impart education according the laws and
policies written in the Constuitution of Maldives.
 The next legal accountability of the educational institutions in Maldives
draws strength from the Gender Equality Act number 18/2016.

Role of the Stakeholders
 Teachers of colleges, schools and
universities
 Students
 Association of the parents and teachers
 Numerous educationalists of the country
 Officials of education ministry
 Non teaching staffs of schools
 Colleges and universities
 State and private sector individuals
related to the education system of the
nation

Challenges in Educational
Governance in The Maldives
 Geographical Isolations
 Lack of properly trained teachers
 Use of the information technology
 Lack of Technological infrastructure in schools
 Professional Development of the teachers

Recommendations
 Development of the Training and Development
Programs for the Teachers
 Investment in technological infrastructure

Conclusion
 Ministry of Education in Maldives has been
paying attention to improve the education quality
in Maldives by improving the technological tools,
such as ICT.
 The teachers require adequate training in order to
develop the considerable approach in this area of
concerns.

References
 Adam, A. (2016). The challenges related to
offering of online teacher education programmes:
A study in a Maldivian university. Charting
flexible pathways in open and distance education,
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 Bajaj, M., & Kidwai, H. (2016). Human rights and
education policy in South Asia. Handbook of
Global Education Policy, 206.