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EL school kicks out 10 pupils

A TOP East London school has instructed parents of 10 pupils in Grade9 to remove them following governing body disciplinary hearings. The Hudson Park High School children have been denied places at the school for 2009. This week some of the parents cried foul over the procedure, which they likened to expulsion. A grandmother of one of the Grade9 pupils approached the Dispatch out of desperation. Most parents. she said, did not know their rights because schools were not permitted to expel...

Division over EC primary schools tests

PRIMARY schools have just four days to complete the mandatory Foundations For Learning numeracy and literacy tests rolled out by the national Department of Education this April. Grade 1 to Grade 6 pupils in the Eastern Cape are being tested on their levels of achievement . Cambridge Primary School principal Neil McIntyre said the standardised tests should be encouraged. We also need to look at where numeracy and literacy is in the country, he said. Cambridge pupils wrote the tests yesterday....

New front against illegal dumping

Conscious of the fact that the issue of garbage collection and its management constitutes not only a veritable challenge but also a real threat to public health, the Federation of Senegalese Organisations in The Gambia (FRSG) has embarked on an initiative that is meant to open a new front in the fight against illegal dumping. As a result, the initiators of this project expressed the need to address the issue of garbage collection. In a report sent to the Daily Observer,  FRSG hailed...

Kaur Lower Basic School Receives Furniture

Kaur Lower Basic School in the Lower Salum CRR, recently received over 200 sets of classroom furniture and a considerable amount of stationary from their Dutch friends known as the Boka Loho Foundation. The delegation from Holland, on behalf of the foundation, was led by Ms Ank and Ms Bain along with their spouses. In receiving the gifts, the Headmaster of the school, Mr. Yuba Jarjusey, expressed his appreciation for the humanitarian gesture. He said that the donated items will go a long way in...

Gambia Methodist Academy Bids Principal Farewell

Gambia Methodist Academy, comprising parents, teachers, pupils and friends, recently honored their outgoing principal in different ceremonies at the school. During a farewell ceremony at GMA for Mr. Emmanuel Amponsah Kogyan Owusu, their principal, spoke on the surprises the PTA have given him. He says, “PTA is a real partnership although PTAs are often difficult but ours has been very good”. Mr. Owusu recounted how he came to The Gambia after he was recruited. Speaking on the challenges he said...

NIGERIA: Classroom shortages threaten primary education targets

The success of the Universal Basic Education (UBE) programme which aims to provide free education to every child in Nigeria caused the number of primary school leavers to more than double in 2007, creating a backlog that the secondary education system is struggling to cope with. Over 49,000 children in the northern Nigeria city of Kano who completed primary school in 2006 and wish to attend secondary school may not be admitted due to a severe shortage of trained teachers and classrooms, Kano...

May’s Nursery School Receives Donation

In what could be seen as a decisive move towards the promotion of education at a grass roots level May’s Nursery School recently received a donation of three computers. Mr. Hassan Saine, Mr. A Sowe and Mr E Ndiaye and Mr Askea Katanga (A K) of 8 & Q slough made the gesture which is worth thousands of Dalasi.   The donation, made through one Ms. Yasin Sowe, was described as a good will gesture and will go a long way towards raising the standard of education in the country. Speaking at the...

May’s Nursery School Receives Donation

In what could be seen as a decisive move towards the promotion of education at a grass roots level May’s Nursery School recently received a donation of three computers. Mr. Hassan Saine, Mr. Abdoulie Lowe and friends made the gesture which is worth thousands of Dalasi. The donation, made through one Ms. Yasro Sowe, was described as a good will gesture and will go a long way towards raising the standard of education in the country. Speaking at the presentation ceremony, Mrs. Musu Jobe...

Education PS on Working Conditions of Teachers

The Permanent Secretary at the Department of State for Education, Mr. Babucarr Boye, has asserted that until such time that the working condition of teachers is raised to a reasonable degree, there would be no guarantee to a minimum acceptable levels of pupils achievements. He added: “May I hasten to assert that unless and until the working condition of teachers is improved, at least to a reasonable limit, there will be no guarantee to a minimum acceptable levels of pupils achievement, to say...

TANZANIA: Plans to raise education standards widely commended

Education experts have welcomed the Tanzanian government’s pledge to hire more teachers in the 2007-2008 financial year to improve the quality of education in the country. “Many will agree that the most important thing in education is the interaction between motivated, competent teachers and their students," Suleiman Sumra, a retired professor of education and researcher with Hakielimu, an NGO dealing with educational issues, told IRIN. The government allocated 18 percent of this year’s...