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Education
Category KPI Result Performance to Benchmark SDG
Student ICT Access 56.97 %
School Enrollment 95.30 %
Higher Education
Degrees 10 849.86
(per 100 000
inhabitants)
Adult Literacy 87.15 %
While Bizerte reports a high adult literacy rate and school enrollment, access to ICT facilities in
classrooms remains lower than in comparable cities in Tunisia. This is possibly as a result of socio-
economic disparities among various neighbourhoods to which schools belong.
Urban stakeholders in Bizerte and other aspiring smart sustainable cities are also encouraged to adopt
more compulsory e-learning systems for students, and to foster public-private partnerships that will
invest in the city’s schools, as a way of developing a future economic labour force that is ICT ready and
literate. To achieve this, a planned, integrative approach to all levels of education from the government’s
education department and technology departments is recommended. This means that educators will
have to find ways of integrating learning into the ultimate workplace, and not just see ICT education
as courses to be taken academically.
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