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Lead war on tribalism, Moi tells new graduates

Former President Moi has urged Kenyans to reject leaders who propagate tribalism.

Examination Malpractice

Examination malpractice has remained a bane of Gambia’s educational system. No wonder the academic certificate being issued to graduates in The Gambia is not seen as valuable by many foreigners. What then is examination malpractice? This is a situation in which candidates for an exam are given unfair advantage before, during or after the exam, for cheap success.  Hence, the sanctity of the exam is broken or violated.   Examination malpractice is bad  for the nation. In the first place, our...

MSSS ex-students Association revived

The members of the Muslim Senior Secondary School Ex-student Association, on June 15, gathered at the school grounds at Banjul to revitalise and elect a new executive committee for the association. The revitalisation cames at a time when the members felt that the former executive members were not fuctioning as expected of them, due to their engagement in other activities. The association, which has been in existence since 1975, has accomodated over twenty-thousand graduates from the school....

Graduates certificated and a groud floor of a six classroom block inaugurated

116 Students from John Pickering Comprehensive Senior Secondary School and 17 students of Skill Training Centre were on Monday certificated during their 1st and 4th graduation ceremony respectively that also coincide with the inauguration ceremony of the ground floor six class room block named after a pioneer sponsor of Stiching Kalifa Foundation based in the Netherland at a colourful ceremony held at the school ground in Lamin Daraka Village in the Kombo North District. The ceremony which goes...

St Augustines SSS hold graduation

Saint Augustines Senior Secondary School recently held their annual speech and prize giving ceremony at the school grounds in Banjul. In his annual school report, Paul Mendy, vice principal on behalf of the principal, described the school as a great and imminent one in the educational map of the Gambia. He highlighted the immense contribution the school has made in shaping the lives of young people since its establishment. On the academic performance, Vice Principal Mendy revealed that the...

Petroleum graduates to be absorbed

The first batch of 25 Gambian graduates of the petroleum elite programme in Taiwan will be absorbed by the Department of State for Energy and the Gambia National Petroleum Company (GNPC), according to government officials. The graduates arrived in Banjul on Sunday afternoon, after successfully completing a four-year degree programme in petroleum engineering at the National Taipei University of Technology in Taipei, Taiwan. Uphill task The performance of the group has been levitated as...

76 graduate at St Peters

St Peters Junior and Senior Secondary school, last Saturday, held its 28th annual graduation and prize giving ceremony, at the school grounds.   In his annual report, Rev father Bruno Toupan, the principal of the school, said they had worked hard over the years and had maintained high standard of excellence in teaching. He cited the progress registered by the school in the 2007 West African Senior Secondary School Certificate examination, noting that 98 candidates sat to the examinations,...

Graduates should venture into vocational training - PS Njie

Mambanyich Njie, Permanent Secretary at the Department of State for Youth and Sports, has said that there is a great need for school graduates notably from Senior Secondary Schools to venture into vocationnal training. In an interview with newsmen at the Joint Officers’ Mess on Monday, PS Mambanyich Njie said vocationnal training is necessary, as it develops self-reliance attitude amongst the youth. “We have seen countries such as Nigeria where graduates take up skill ventures at their National...

ABE holds graduation ceremony

The Association of Business Executives (ABE), a UK based international qualification provider, last Thursday awarded certificates to 16 outstanding students. The ABE certificate covers  various fields of study. The 2007 batch of graduates came from different institutions in the Gambia, that include Jollof Tutor, Bips, Trust Communication and Nusrat Management and Accountancy Training Centre (NMATC) received their certificates during a presentation ceremony held at Kairaba Beach Hotel, Kololi. ...

LIBERIA: Teaching medicine against the odds

Before Liberia was torn apart by civil war, the AM Dogliotti medical school was funded by the government and turned out around 40 graduates a year. Now there are 195 students on the register, but last year only four students graduated as the average course length has jumped from five years to nine. And the school, the only one of its kind in Liberia, is running out of money. "Everything is a problem here… staffing, infrastructure, logistics,” Dr Tabeh Freeman, Acting Dean and Associate...