Haiti: Call to Facilitate Higher Education Activities
Organizations of Education in Haiti, Aug 2024 Photo: Hope for Haiti
September 10, 2024 Hour: 4:31 pm
Attacks by armed gangs against institutions of the State University of Haiti in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince make it impossible for students to access the classrooms to continue their academic learning.
On Tuesday, the Office of Citizen Protection (OPC) called on the government to take urgent measures to facilitate the continuation of higher education activities in Haiti.
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In a letter addressed to Haiti’s interim prime minister, Garry Conille, the OPC explained the negative impacts on this level of education due to insecurity generated by gang violence.
Attacks by armed gangs against institutions of the State University of Haiti in the metropolitan area of Port-au-Prince make it impossible for students to access the classrooms to continue their academic learning, according to the letter published in the newspaper Le Nouvelliste.
Earlier, the Conference of Rectors, Presidents of Universities and Directors of Higher Education Institutions in Haiti called on the government to act in defense of higher education in Haiti, which today risks extinction, leaving thousands of young people without a better future.
The university centers in the metropolitan area are in a state of total dysfunction, unable to fulfil their teaching mission, having been attacked, vandalized, looted and set on fire, they stressed in a letter sent to Conille.
“Higher education is increasingly difficult in Haiti. Following the succession of crises that the country has experienced, the events that began at the end of February have exacerbated the already alarming situation, particularly in the metropolitan region of Port-au-Prince,” the letter states.
The level of education in the Antillean nation is calamitous, underlines the text of the Conference of Rectors, Presidents of Universities and Directors of Higher Education Institutions of Haiti, which was published in the daily Le Nouvelliste.
The academics pointed out to Conille elements that have dented this level, and mentioned the Covid-19 pandemic that caused the closure of institutions, the disastrous financial effects on cash flow, the massive departure of young people to other countries between 2021 and 2024, and the security crisis that has plagued the country for the past three years.
Autor: OSG
Fuente: The Independent-HaitiLibre