Over the past seven years, the Government of Madagascar has focused on involving communities in controlling their own primary schools. With the support of the World Bank, the Ministry of Education has developed and implemented principles, strategies, and procedures that move towards this...

Higher education in Madagascar was in crisis in the early 1990s. Campuses were taken over by squatters and vandals. Little if any teaching was taking place because senior members of universities could not enter buildings. The quality of education was extremely low, with little or no research...