Minister calls for higher education gender gaps to be fixed

The Gambia’s minister for higher education, research, science and technology has stressed gender gaps should be fixed at educational level to allow women to be part and parcel of the development process in the Gambia, writes Mariama A Darboe for The Point.

Professor Pierre Gomez was speaking at a recent presser on the development of a National Strategy for the Increased Participation of the Female Gender in Tertiary and Higher Education held at the ministry’s conference centre. The briefing was organised to discuss the inequality of the female gender in the country’s tertiary education system compared to the male gender.

At the event, Emily Sarr, a consultant, highlighted the strategies that are put forth in the development of a National Strategy for the Female Gender in Tertiary and Higher Education. She said that the Gambia has pledged allegiance at the global level and to numerous international and regional protocols.
Full report on The Point site