Mauritius Education Landscape

Mauritius is undergoing tremendous changes in the education sector. Factors contributing to these changes are:

•  Advancement in new technologies
• Rapid pace of globalization
• Increasing mobility of students and scholars
• Movement of academic programs and institutions across borders.

Aim of government:

• Transform Mauritius into a regional knowledge hub
• To serve the region and as a multi-disciplinary centre for higher learning and excellence

In Mauritius, tertiary education revolves around:

50 private-funded institutions – the list of private institutions may be accessed on the website of TEC – Tertiary Education Commission on the link below:

www.tec.mu

10 institutions within the public sector:

1. The University of Mauritius (UOM) – established since 1965 – largest student population among all public universities uom.ac.mu

2. The University of Technology Mauritius (UTM) – created in year 2000 utm.ac.mu

3. The Mauritius Institute of Education (MIE) mie.ac.mu

4. The Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) mgirti.ac.mu

5. The Rabindranath Tagore Institute (RTI)  mgirti.ac.mu

6. The Fashion Design Institute (FDI) fdi.mu

7. The Open University Mauritius (OUM) – set up in July 2012 by the government   open.ac.mu

8. L’Université des Mascareignes – established in May 2012 – The Institute Supérieur de Technologie and the Swami Dayanand Institute of Management were integrated into the UDM.  udm.ac.mu

9. The Mauritius Institute of Training and Development mitd.mu

10. The Mauritius Institute of Health mih.govmu.org​

Regulatory Framework

The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) being the main quality assurance agency in Mauritius, has been set up to oversee the tertiary education institutions in Mauritius.

The Ministry of Education and Human Resources in cooperation with TEC has prepared a Regulatory Framework for post-secondary education. It will allow the tertiary education sector in Mauritius to attain world-class status, and be able to attract international students, brand-name institutions of higher learning and a highly qualified teaching staff. This framework will be used by the Board of Investment for attracting Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) in the Tertiary Education Sector.

 Qualifications Framework

The National Qualifications Framework (NQF) in Mauritius is the framework for setting educational standards of academic and vocational qualifications as well as for categorising qualifications by level and stage of education. The NQF is established and maintained by the Mauritius Qualifications Authority (MQA). The framework may be mapped to qualification frameworks of other countries.