ABSTRACT
Since their attainment of independent status, the new nations of Africa have put education in the forefront of their programmes. Educational planning as an integral part of economic planning was immediately accepted by most African leaders as the way to deliver their country from poverty, unemployment, and ignorance. The Tunisian Ten-Year Plan (1962–71) has, among other aims, the achievement of basic pri-mary education for all by 1966. In this framework, a triennial plan for 1962–4 and a quadrennial plan for 1965–8 have been published. Morocco also formulated a quinquennial plan for 1960–64 and a triennial plan for 1965–7 which have as their objectives the spread of primary education and the unification of different types of education (European, Mussulman, Israeli) into a purely Arab type of education. The Algerian Republic, which has gained independence more recently, has not yet settled on a plan of development, but the programme of the National Liberation Front adopted in Tripoli in 1962 assigned two principal tasks to the revolution: the development of a national culture and the removal of illiteracy.
