Paper short abstract:

At the independence time , the PALOP education systems, are constrained by many problems and many expectations. The improvements were mainly in the sense of formal education massification, remaining quality problems . However Good Practices have been implemented. Some are the object of this communication.

Paper long abstract:

Educational systems of PALOP, since the decade of 70 ,have profound constraints: populations with high rates of illiteracy, high demography, lack of human and material resources, deficit of identity. With high politic expectations, their evolution has been in the sense of the massification, especially in primary education, giving less importance to pre-school and vocational education.

In recent years, enrollment rates are 100% (or almost) in primary school and was enlarged the compulsory age of attendance at school. There are not institutionalized practices of evaluation systems and the indicators reflect a lack of quality.

However, programs and actions for the quality (creating legislation, introduction of evaluation, resource affectation, for example) has been implemented.

The communication presents some of the best practices of PALOP education systems, describing them and indicating their impact.