ABSTRACT
Educational developments in Mali were greatly influenced by the wider issues of the country’s historical experience so that we may say that educationally as well as politically there was a colonial system and a Malian national system of education in the post-independence era after 1960. The colonial school system emerged when Mali was governed as part of the entire French Sudan. Since 1962 education in Mali has followed the lines laid down by the reform of 1960–2. However, the first seminar on national education and the meeting of education leaders at Bamako in December 1964 introduced some modifications. On the whole, however, the structure of education and the spirit which the reform infused into it remained unchanged. The educational structure since 1962 is as follows: fundamental education; teacher education; technical, professional and general secondary education; and higher education.
