Ministère de L'Enseignement Pré-Universitaire et de L'Alphabetisation / Ministry of Pre-University Education and Literacy

The role of the Ministry of Pre-university Education and Literacy is to design, develop and implement government policy on pre-university education and literacy and to ensure the follow-up.

As such, it is particularly responsible for drafting legislative and regulatory texts in the area of preschool education, basic education and general and technical secondary education, civic and moral education, literacy, education non-formal, promoting national languages and ensuring their application;

• to provide every Guinean child with a quality education;
• collect, process and disseminate school data;
• to develop and implement strategies, programs and projects for the development of pre-university education and literacy;
• to develop strategies for securing and sustaining the teaching and learning process in emergency situations;
• to develop and implement strategies and development plans for school canteens;
• develop and implement teaching-learning evaluation strategies;
• to define the teaching profiles to be trained;
• developing and implementing continuing education programs and projects for teaching and supervisory staff;
• promote and develop educational research;
• to promote and develop the School-Community partnership;
• to promote the use of information and communication technologies in its sector;
• to promote physical and sports education and hygiene and health education in schools;
• to develop school libraries and documentation and information centres;
• to ensure the coherence of the teaching and education system at the level of all cycles falling within the competence of the ministry;
• to participate in the planning of the initial foundation of teachers at the level of training institutions;
• strengthen educational management and school guidance systems;
• to ensure the evaluation, renewal and accreditation of teaching programs;
• to ensure the qualification of private education within its competence and to ensure its follow-up;
• to organize examinations and school controls in the educational establishments under its jurisdiction;
• to encourage and strengthen gender and equity programs at the level of all cycles of school education;
• develop and modernize pre-school infrastructure and equipment and ensure their maintenance;
• to participate in the negotiations of conventions, regional and international treaties in the field of pre-university and secondary education and literacy;
• to take into account the environmental dimension in the programs and projects of its sector;
• to participate in sub-regional and international meetings, conferences, symposiums and seminars dealing with issues relating to the areas of competence of the ministry.