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jambo
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kondorong
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 Posted - 27 Oct 2006 : 01:27:33
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| Its one thing to build a classroom but its another to build school. The two are very different. |
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sankahjang
USA
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Posted - 27 Oct 2006 : 02:40:27
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| It definately need a serious critical thinking. these are the people the country is producing for its future, and if the majority of them are coming out of high school that accademically poor, that should worry any one who wants a better Gambia. The last grade nine result is really poor.I think revisiting our educational history in trying to figure out a solution to this poor perfomance in schools will be a good idea. The educational system cannot be better without a better policies and mesurres in places to enhance the performance of students. Students has to be made to relize the importance of education inorder for them to take it seriously. Of course I am not suggesting that we go back to the use of "SYMBOL", a neck lace of bones worn on your neck for talking any language in class other than english, but measures like that made a lot of pupils to put an effort into learning to speak english. That kind of measures in a neat and healthy way can make a lot of these students put extra effort into thier education. It will really be hard for a student to concentrate on what is going on in class when he/she is expecting a phone call in the class on a cell phone. what about if the person that called them tell them something distracting, it will be hard to learn. something needs to be done to improve thier performance. |
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jambo
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Posted - 27 Oct 2006 : 13:28:10
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i do think some of it comes from the home. when i joined the bantaba a i sponsored a child to go to school, but she missed some classes because she had to go to the market to buy the family food i didn't understand it then but understand know that some parents will send a child to school but not encourage them past grade 9.
it is sad but i have found this to be common.
if you talk to some of the youths who hang around the tourist areas some of them finished at grade 9. |
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kondorong
Gambia
4380 Posts |
Posted - 27 Oct 2006 : 17:47:21
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| "Hope is a force multiplier" Colin Powell |
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njucks
Gambia
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Posted - 27 Oct 2006 : 18:48:28
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ofcourse when you say private, name like WAS, Marina are excluded. they are even doing cambridge exams perhaps.
two things are important here. and i think the only way to stabilise it is to have surplus. there are just simply too few teachers. hence the good ones become too costly and the cheap ones are not motivated. the students loose out, as reported.
qunatity has increased and quality can go down only to an acceptable level for a specified period.
a special Teacher Training college is the only way out. |
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 27 Oct 2006 : 19:12:41
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Well we have a Teacher training college. The problem is the education ministry is a joke.
HTC is Higher Teachers Certificate
PTC is Primary Teachers Certificate
BTC is Basic Teachers Certicates given to teachers who cannot pass any of the above two. Most teachers in this category cannot speak construct a correct sentence but have been around for too long. They are on grade 3. Certainly such a certificate only leads to poor students. Again if the education system is only there to push every one, then the products will not be ready to teach quality. Mass promtions is the norm now. You cannot sow corn and harvest millet. |
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Sanusi
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Posted - 27 Oct 2006 : 20:28:42
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Whether we like it or not, The Government's constant disruption by declaring unnecessary public holidays during the last academic year is a contributory factor for such poor performance. Just imagine how the school programme has been disrupted when Jammeh declares a Public Holiday.
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kondorong
Gambia
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Posted - 27 Oct 2006 : 22:10:39
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| Too many holidays in the Gambia now. The academic year is now six months. July 22nd, independence, korite, tobaski, sang marie, christmas, maulud Nabi, assumption day, september 11, birthdays, koriteh, new year, etc. Some holidays are mostly two days. Public holodays are about 36 days of the year. |
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sankahjang
USA
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Posted - 28 Oct 2006 : 02:16:04
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| Of course a lot of hollidays. Just like con said the education ministry does not seem to be doing its work right. There are a lot of schools that are dumping grounds. They are full of students most of whom did not even past the national mark to get to junior/senior secondary school.One would expect schools with high performing students to cost higher than these school, but the opposite is the case. That clearly tells that they are more about getting people's money than giving them better education. Quantity of schools and quality of schools are different. After praising the Gorvenment for building schools everywhere and allowing anyone to open private schools, they should now put their attention on how to improve the quality of the education. |
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jambo
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Posted - 28 Oct 2006 : 14:51:15
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but surely if you build a nice school and the teachers are poor that defeats the object.
I wuld like to see the schools holidays announced a year ahead and that everyone knows what is happening. my last visit the president announced bank holidays via the radio and tv two days before, some schools had planned exams during that time.
a proper recognised school year would help. just a tought |
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kobo
United Kingdom
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eire
Zimbabwe
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Posted - 07 Jan 2007 : 14:28:27
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What is the best secondary school in Gambia??
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Lily
United Kingdom
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Posted - 07 Jan 2007 : 18:51:47
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That's an interesting question and there are lots of different answers, I would guess, depending on the child in question. Some thrive where others wouldn't - some prefer to be a big fish in a small pool (as it were) others like to battle against fierce competition...
It also depends on what you mean by good - as in "good results", or "good with the students". For me it means where the teaching is consistently good and children can find their own level. Not all will gain credits but a handful of passes may also be worthy of high praise ........
Gambia High School is (usually good); Marina International seems to have the very best reputation - but I doubt that many "ordinary" Gambians attend. Pipeline (now called Daddy Jobe) has some fairly good results as does Nusrat. This time when I was over I was told that Armitage is not as good as it once was - but I can not confirm this. |
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jambo
3300 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2007 : 20:12:37
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| where are you based, is it for a child you sponsor |
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eire
Zimbabwe
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Posted - 22 Jan 2007 : 13:09:17
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| It is sad to see that St. Augustines is no longer listed as a 'good school'. It used to ber the best when Fr. Joseph Gough was Principal. What has gone wrong? |
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