They are sending the girls away from School Mr. President!
It is claimed that there is free education for girls in The Gambia. However, little is mentioned of the limited nature of the education support being provided to some girls.
The senior secondary schools have started sending girls away from school for not paying their fees.
Some of the girls are required to pay Three Thousand Dalasi and others more than Four Thousand Dalasi. Those who cannot pay must stay at home.
In a meeting between the president and the representatives of the governing body of the university, he alluded to the fact that a researcher had talked about education being more expensive, a comment which he considered to fall short of international findings. We hope the SoS for basic education will commission a study on the accessibility of secondary education, giving gender mainstreaming particular consideration. We are convinced that she will corroborate that the cost of secondary education is making access more prohibitive to young men and women from poor families. The lip service to free education for girls should stop. Let the study be commissioned and let the truth be told to the people. If the government disagrees with Foroyaa we challenge it to make its position clear through a pres release and call on us to send those affected to the Department of State.
i always thought that they had to pay for senior secondary school, only primary school is free. when you send a child to school you are told in advance waht the fees are, you should not send a child to school if you cannot afford it from the first day. this journalist knows that this school charges for education. It is also the reason that school books are not balancing because peopel are not apying fees.
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