Description

The National Vision 2030, adopted by the Government in 2012, speaks of Liberia becoming a “Middle Income Country” by 2030. The engine that should drive efforts to achieve this goal is human capacity formation. Education, as a means of human capacity formation, is a powerful driver of development and one of the most important instruments for improving health, gender equality, skilled employment, peace, and stability. How we envision and define the end product and specify the process of education to achieve that end must be given serious consideration. What does a Liberian graduate, exiting the educational system, contribute to the national agenda? What is he/she capable of doing? How effectively is the end product of the educational system linked to the achievement of the national goal of becoming a middle income country? Liberia’s educational system must be linked to national development, with the youth as a vital resource for self-actualization, community involvement, and nation building. This study seeks to explore how the products of Liberia’s educational system are prepared by that system to drive a national effort to become a middle income country.