Back to School 2026: Abolishing Competition, Rethinking Education: When Education Tried to Change Course

At the turn of the 2000s, the Mauritian school system reached a breaking point. Social pressure, heightened competition, and persistent inequalities: the system, inherited from the early post-Independence years, revealed its limitations. Two ministers, at different times, attempted to address this deep-seated malaise through ambitious reforms: Steven Obeegadoo and, a few years later, Dr. Vasant Bunwaree.

Former Minister of Education from 2000 to 2005, ...