Report reveals taxi industry hampering HE enrolment

On the very day Liberia inaugurated its new president and vice-president, a civil society organisation released what it calls useful data to support the new government’s education and youth development programmes. Among such data is the finding that the commercial taxi driving industry is hampering young people’s pursuit of higher education, writes Toweh Alphonso for The New Republic.

The data is contained in a report titled A Decade Without Higher Education, which details findings from a study conducted in September and October 2017 that sought to understand the level of education attained by Liberia’s commercial motor taxi drivers within the last decade. There are an estimated 40,000 commercial motorcyclists in Liberia.

Releasing the report, Open Liberia’s Executive Director, Samuka Konneh, said the fast and untaxed revenues from this sector discourage actors from pursuing sustainable careers, whether through higher academic, technical or vocational education, adding that the sector plays an abiding role in suppressing the national campaign against illiteracy.
Full report on The New Republic site