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Current Feed ContentScanaid Chairman Bids Farewell to Graduating ClassThe chairman Board of Governors of Scanaid Senior Secondary School recently addressed the graduating class of the school at their Brufut campus. Andrew Gabriel Sylva, the new chairman of the Board of Governors of the school, welcomed guests including parents, and urged them to support their children. He said the occasion was a momentous one in the lives of the graduates. He said for the graduating students the day marks the conclusion of one phase in life and the commencement of another. “To...SENEGAL: Primary schools grapple with digital technologyIn the poor fishing neighbourhood of Medina in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, a small school sits wedged between a run-down cemetery and a craft market. Piles of rubbish line a sandy alleyway that leads to the school’s front gate. The school walls are stained; desks are cracked and dusty. Yet among the dirt and disorder of one classroom, six shiny flat-screen computers line one side. They are seemingly out of place. At one computer ten-year-old Amadou Diallo is fighting off his classmates to... |