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 Posted - 25 May 2006 : 15:59:47
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GAMBIAN TEACHERS NEEDED
By Amie Sanneh
The Secretary of State for Education, Fatou Lamin Faye, has stressed the need for Gambians to take up teaching as a profession.
She said if non-Gambian teachers are extracted from the system, then the national teacher requirement needs would shrink enormously.
The SoS for Education made this statement while observing the Global Week Action (GWA) on the theme: “Every child needs a teacher” at the National Assembly.
She said what is needed is to encourage teachers to stay and to attract more Gambians to join the vocation.
She said inorder to uplift the image of teachers and make it more dignified and attractive, they need to be rewarded accordingly. “Importantly, Gambians must come forth to be trained as teachers and run the schools. It is noble to strive for self advancement through the acquisition of wealth or through lucrative enterprises and professions but it is nobler to serve humanity, for this has eternal rewards that can never be quantified,” she remarked.
Commenting on the theme, she pointed out that each child must be provided and equipped with the requisite knowledge to become a productive and acceptable member of the world.
For this to happen, she said, families should teach their children or create the necessary conducive environment for them.
SoS Faye posited: “Every child needs a teacher does not mean access to any teacher but one who is academically and professionally adequate, and could serve as a role model, parent, friend, educator, etc.”
She however noted that her department is more than willing to work with all those who share similar concerns and are interested in partnership and collaboration. “On the other hand, we beseech those who are less concerned about the education of the youths to ponder over the problems that confront African countries in general and The Gambia in particular in order to realise what difference they can make,” she concluded.
Source: Issue No. 40/2006, 25-28 May,2006
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