Education Reform – 2001

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Education Reform – 2001

2001

Intermediate Implementation Intermediate implementation

The Free Primary Education Policy was introduced in 2001. According to the policy, primary school children in public schools were offered free schooling.1

The free primary education covered students in classes one to six. In 2001, there were 554,308 pupils enrolled in primary education, 42% of which were female. There were 14,875 primary education teachers.2

  1. “National Report on the Review of the Implementation of the Brussels Programme of Action 2001-2010,” Government of Sierra Leone, 2009, https://www.un.org/wcm/webdav/site/ldc/shared/shared/SierraLeoneNational…, accessed November 2, 2010.
  2. “World Development Indicator,” World Bank, 2010, http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators, accessed October 20, 2010.