Re: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE EDUCATION CONFRENCE
Dear folks, Many opinions expressed on this forum have spanned a range of approaches for thinking about, and working to improve quality of education in our region. May I ask; does someone have a researched document highlighting some of the key causes of the declining performance in our schools? If yes, may we share such write-up so that it can give an impetus to the kind of intervention/seminar/workshop the WNF is about to organize. I know, we have heard testimonies from teachers, students, parents and many others who partake in the education systems of our region, but I still belief that testimonies without empirical data may not provide us with better insights into how we can jointly rescue the sinking boat. Fagil Mande the Chairman UNEB may have lambasted “mediocrity”, as the main cause of the poor performance in schools, but unfortunately, himself as a senior educationist may not have even suggested ways to kick such mediocrity out of the system. Is it because of the liberalization of the education sector, or it’s a caste system in schools? Yes, mediocre students go to mediocre schools to be taught by mediocre teachers. I’m of the view that if we had reliable information on the main causes of the declining performance(although this is likely to vary from district to district or even from school to school) we would then be able to make recommendations after examining the broad perspectives such as the socio-cultural environment in which our students study; policy and political frame-works etc. Some districts like Arua took the first steps and developed the Education Ordinance, but the question is; what is the impact of such legislation? Maybe it’s still too early to ask. Otherwise, if not well planned, we risk recycling the old stories we hear on the radios about the usual low grades without anything significantly novel. Good Weekend, Kefa Atibuni From: Robert Ejiku ejikurob...@gmail.com To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 9:40 AM Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE EDUCATION CONFRENCE Caleb, You have said it even better. A convention, workshop oof any type would certainly bring some change but how committed are those who may not be sharing this problem with us right now? For instance does the CAO Arua or Nebbi think this is a problem? When you invite them at the hour of need they will send you one of those reps of theirs who may not even report back let alone direct policy or implementation at any stage. Its true we can not get everyone but thier commitment is paramount. Secondly such a convention needs alot of planning to realize the desired goals and that means time. Lets plan pray over it and implement. June is my earliest preference. Thank you, off to a meeting shortly and will be in touch later even on phone with some of you. Ejiku On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Caleb Alaka calebal...@yahoo.com wrote: Prof. Robert, I read your essay with tears, at times I feel like refusing to register my SIM cards and allowing to be switched off by UCC to avoid uncalled for heartaches from our region. Again the prospect of loosing business looms larger as a threat to the existence of my survival if my phone is switched off by UCC. Any way. Robert, if modern medicine fails to cure a strange disease or a long ailment, human beings resort to everything under the sky including, mysticism, witch crafty, superstition, spiritualism, salvation and mention it. The truth is all these are in most cases desperate measures, and believe you me, may be it gives a sense of hope. For donkey years, we have hoofed, puffed and gaffed over the death of education in our region. Fagil Mande the Chairman UNEB on TV lambasted mediocrity, and boldly stated that if you have mediocre teachers, who teach mediocre students in a mediocre school the results will surely be mediocre. I am not accusing any teacher since those are not my words. But those words sum up our situation. Prof, you, me and the rest have intervened in everything that affects us, if we had a convention say hosted in one of the schools, we invite all stake holders including Fagil Mande, we have two serious days of deliberation, we invite all head teachers from West Nile Schools or their representatives, business men, LC3, and V chairpersons, Education officers, RDCs, parents representatives, CAO's ourselves and MPs, Student representatives and we come up with resolutions which districts in West Nile can adopt as working documents including schools, and may be Government inclusive, then we see no change in attitudes of students, parents and school administrators and if we do not see improvement in results, I will gladly say, we did our part and may be resort to only prayers. Sorry these issues can only be expressed in form of essays. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2013, at 4:27 PM, aggrey adrale
Re: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE EDUCATION CONFRENCE
so Mr. President in light of Mr. Atibuni's contribution can we please set up a team to undertake such a study funds permitting? perhaps an education expert can help us and prepare a questionnaire. wishing you all a pleasant weekend * Regards, Winfred Adukule-Meuter * On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:19 PM, atibuni kefa atibu...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear folks, Many opinions expressed on this forum have spanned a range of approaches for thinking about, and working to improve quality of education in our region. May I ask; does someone have a researched document highlighting some of the key causes of the declining performance in our schools? If yes, may we share such write-up so that it can give an impetus to the kind of intervention/seminar/workshop the WNF is about to organize. I know, we have heard testimonies from teachers, students, parents and many others who partake in the education systems of our region, but I still belief that testimonies without empirical data may not provide us with better insights into how we can jointly rescue the sinking boat. Fagil Mande the Chairman UNEB may have lambasted “mediocrity”, as the main cause of the poor performance in schools, but unfortunately, himself as a senior educationist may not have even suggested ways to kick such mediocrity out of the system. Is it because of the liberalization of the education sector, or it’s a caste system in schools? Yes, mediocre students go to mediocre schools to be taught by mediocre teachers. I’m of the view that if we had reliable information on the main causes of the declining performance(although this is likely to vary from district to district or even from school to school) we would then be able to make recommendations after examining the broad perspectives such as the socio-cultural environment in which our students study; policy and political frame-works etc. Some districts like Arua took the first steps and developed the Education Ordinance, but the question is; what is the impact of such legislation? Maybe it’s still too early to ask. Otherwise, if not well planned, we risk recycling the old stories we hear on the radios about the usual low grades without anything significantly novel. Good Weekend, Kefa Atibuni -- *From:* Robert Ejiku ejikurob...@gmail.com *To:* A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net *Sent:* Friday, March 1, 2013 9:40 AM *Subject:* Re: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE EDUCATION CONFRENCE Caleb, You have said it even better. A convention, workshop oof any type would certainly bring some change but how committed are those who may not be sharing this problem with us right now? For instance does the CAO Arua or Nebbi think this is a problem? When you invite them at the hour of need they will send you one of those reps of theirs who may not even report back let alone direct policy or implementation at any stage. Its true we can not get everyone but thier commitment is paramount. Secondly such a convention needs alot of planning to realize the desired goals and that means time. Lets plan pray over it and implement. June is my earliest preference. Thank you, off to a meeting shortly and will be in touch later even on phone with some of you. Ejiku On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Caleb Alaka calebal...@yahoo.com wrote: Prof. Robert, I read your essay with tears, at times I feel like refusing to register my SIM cards and allowing to be switched off by UCC to avoid uncalled for heartaches from our region. Again the prospect of loosing business looms larger as a threat to the existence of my survival if my phone is switched off by UCC. Any way. Robert, if modern medicine fails to cure a strange disease or a long ailment, human beings resort to everything under the sky including, mysticism, witch crafty, superstition, spiritualism, salvation and mention it. The truth is all these are in most cases desperate measures, and believe you me, may be it gives a sense of hope. For donkey years, we have hoofed, puffed and gaffed over the death of education in our region. Fagil Mande the Chairman UNEB on TV lambasted mediocrity, and boldly stated that if you have mediocre teachers, who teach mediocre students in a mediocre school the results will surely be mediocre. I am not accusing any teacher since those are not my words. But those words sum up our situation. Prof, you, me and the rest have intervened in everything that affects us, if we had a convention say hosted in one of the schools, we invite all stake holders including Fagil Mande, we have two serious days of deliberation, we invite all head teachers from West Nile Schools or their representatives, business men, LC3, and V chairpersons, Education officers, RDCs, parents representatives, CAO's ourselves and MPs, Student representatives and we come up with resolutions which districts in West Nile can adopt as working documents including
[WestNileNet] Fwd: Jobline: Liason officer at FIT Uganda
Begin forwarded message: From: Ross Kubzo rku...@gmail.com Subject: Jobline: Liason officer at FIT Uganda Date: March 1, 2013 1:28:12 PM GMT+03:00 To: undisclosed-recipients:; Good people, FIT Uganda is urgently looking for persons to fill the post of Liaison officer for a 1 year contract (with possible extension depending on project results). He/she will be based in Gulu and should have some of the following; · Experience in agribusiness related activities · Knowledge of working with media (esp. Radio). · Should have good networks in the NGO, Private sector, Govt, Agribusiness support agencies, farmer organizations, etc. · Should be familiar with local language of Gulu and surrounding districts (esp. Lamwo). · Excellent report writing skills. Those who may be interested can send their CVs to ca...@fituganda.com . Thanks. ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
Re: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE EDUCATION CONFRENCE
Kefa, I beleive you make alot of sense and actually also point towards some answers in your piece. Thank you. Ejiku. On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:19 PM, atibuni kefa atibu...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear folks, Many opinions expressed on this forum have spanned a range of approaches for thinking about, and working to improve quality of education in our region. May I ask; does someone have a researched document highlighting some of the key causes of the declining performance in our schools? If yes, may we share such write-up so that it can give an impetus to the kind of intervention/seminar/workshop the WNF is about to organize. I know, we have heard testimonies from teachers, students, parents and many others who partake in the education systems of our region, but I still belief that testimonies without empirical data may not provide us with better insights into how we can jointly rescue the sinking boat. Fagil Mande the Chairman UNEB may have lambasted “mediocrity”, as the main cause of the poor performance in schools, but unfortunately, himself as a senior educationist may not have even suggested ways to kick such mediocrity out of the system. Is it because of the liberalization of the education sector, or it’s a caste system in schools? Yes, mediocre students go to mediocre schools to be taught by mediocre teachers. I’m of the view that if we had reliable information on the main causes of the declining performance(although this is likely to vary from district to district or even from school to school) we would then be able to make recommendations after examining the broad perspectives such as the socio-cultural environment in which our students study; policy and political frame-works etc. Some districts like Arua took the first steps and developed the Education Ordinance, but the question is; what is the impact of such legislation? Maybe it’s still too early to ask. Otherwise, if not well planned, we risk recycling the old stories we hear on the radios about the usual low grades without anything significantly novel. Good Weekend, Kefa Atibuni -- *From:* Robert Ejiku ejikurob...@gmail.com *To:* A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net *Sent:* Friday, March 1, 2013 9:40 AM *Subject:* Re: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE EDUCATION CONFRENCE Caleb, You have said it even better. A convention, workshop oof any type would certainly bring some change but how committed are those who may not be sharing this problem with us right now? For instance does the CAO Arua or Nebbi think this is a problem? When you invite them at the hour of need they will send you one of those reps of theirs who may not even report back let alone direct policy or implementation at any stage. Its true we can not get everyone but thier commitment is paramount. Secondly such a convention needs alot of planning to realize the desired goals and that means time. Lets plan pray over it and implement. June is my earliest preference. Thank you, off to a meeting shortly and will be in touch later even on phone with some of you. Ejiku On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Caleb Alaka calebal...@yahoo.com wrote: Prof. Robert, I read your essay with tears, at times I feel like refusing to register my SIM cards and allowing to be switched off by UCC to avoid uncalled for heartaches from our region. Again the prospect of loosing business looms larger as a threat to the existence of my survival if my phone is switched off by UCC. Any way. Robert, if modern medicine fails to cure a strange disease or a long ailment, human beings resort to everything under the sky including, mysticism, witch crafty, superstition, spiritualism, salvation and mention it. The truth is all these are in most cases desperate measures, and believe you me, may be it gives a sense of hope. For donkey years, we have hoofed, puffed and gaffed over the death of education in our region. Fagil Mande the Chairman UNEB on TV lambasted mediocrity, and boldly stated that if you have mediocre teachers, who teach mediocre students in a mediocre school the results will surely be mediocre. I am not accusing any teacher since those are not my words. But those words sum up our situation. Prof, you, me and the rest have intervened in everything that affects us, if we had a convention say hosted in one of the schools, we invite all stake holders including Fagil Mande, we have two serious days of deliberation, we invite all head teachers from West Nile Schools or their representatives, business men, LC3, and V chairpersons, Education officers, RDCs, parents representatives, CAO's ourselves and MPs, Student representatives and we come up with resolutions which districts in West Nile can adopt as working documents including schools, and may be Government inclusive, then we see no change in attitudes of students, parents and school administrators and if we do not see
Re: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE EDUCATION CONFRENCE
Dear Folks, The commitment issue Robert has stressed in my view is the gist of a lot of our dilemma in addressing most problems we have talked, discussed and recycled. Commitment and a very careful planning I think in this particular issue is as important. That is why I suggested a committee of at least 10 -12 people be established to conduct hearings in each district and the report from these committees be the basis of organizing the conference. This will of of course require a careful planning and time and commitment from people to take the initiative to volunteer themselves in these committees. One of the problems we have with our people is their lack of interest in volunteering their time to help their own communities. Thanks, Vasco On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Robert Ejiku ejikurob...@gmail.com wrote: Caleb, You have said it even better. A convention, workshop oof any type would certainly bring some change but how committed are those who may not be sharing this problem with us right now? For instance does the CAO Arua or Nebbi think this is a problem? When you invite them at the hour of need they will send you one of those reps of theirs who may not even report back let alone direct policy or implementation at any stage. Its true we can not get everyone but thier commitment is paramount. Secondly such a convention needs alot of planning to realize the desired goals and that means time. Lets plan pray over it and implement. June is my earliest preference. Thank you, off to a meeting shortly and will be in touch later even on phone with some of you. Ejiku On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Caleb Alaka calebal...@yahoo.com wrote: Prof. Robert, I read your essay with tears, at times I feel like refusing to register my SIM cards and allowing to be switched off by UCC to avoid uncalled for heartaches from our region. Again the prospect of loosing business looms larger as a threat to the existence of my survival if my phone is switched off by UCC. Any way. Robert, if modern medicine fails to cure a strange disease or a long ailment, human beings resort to everything under the sky including, mysticism, witch crafty, superstition, spiritualism, salvation and mention it. The truth is all these are in most cases desperate measures, and believe you me, may be it gives a sense of hope. For donkey years, we have hoofed, puffed and gaffed over the death of education in our region. Fagil Mande the Chairman UNEB on TV lambasted mediocrity, and boldly stated that if you have mediocre teachers, who teach mediocre students in a mediocre school the results will surely be mediocre. I am not accusing any teacher since those are not my words. But those words sum up our situation. Prof, you, me and the rest have intervened in everything that affects us, if we had a convention say hosted in one of the schools, we invite all stake holders including Fagil Mande, we have two serious days of deliberation, we invite all head teachers from West Nile Schools or their representatives, business men, LC3, and V chairpersons, Education officers, RDCs, parents representatives, CAO's ourselves and MPs, Student representatives and we come up with resolutions which districts in West Nile can adopt as working documents including schools, and may be Government inclusive, then we see no change in attitudes of students, parents and school administrators and if we do not see improvement in results, I will gladly say, we did our part and may be resort to only prayers. Sorry these issues can only be expressed in form of essays. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2013, at 4:27 PM, aggrey adrale fetagrey2...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Caleb, Elly, et al, I like the way all of you have reacted or responded to this alarming report. As correctly observed, ...Nyapea is on its death bed. It is true, not only St. Alloysius College, but several other schools are in that same bracket; laying in state for us to pay our last respects to them before their burial. Also true, not only are the academic standards falling but also the infrastructure holding the delicate potential intellectuals are crumbling and some buildings silting up! School administrators even portray incognisance of such gradual decay, yet they have the student labour resource to mitigate some of the infrastructure challenges then there is little wonder they even cast a blind eye to the decaying academic standards; and no doubt their administrative acumen. By the way what has become of the long promised Government of Uganda conceived infrastructure rehabilitation projects of these prominent schools in West Nile, Mvara, Nyapea, Ombaci? Is it true, furniture was delivered to some of the schools even without improvements of the housing infrastructure? This may not be the issue for now but suffice it to add that our formerly shining schools do not cast any image of academic confidence and assurance any more. The 'shipping'
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Thank you Vasco, The word is commitment and most of our ideas will actually work. Perhaps we try address how to get 10-12 people committed and they will help us in understanding later how to get in and make a difference. Thank you once again. Ejiku On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Vasco Oguzua vogu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Folks, The commitment issue Robert has stressed in my view is the gist of a lot of our dilemma in addressing most problems we have talked, discussed and recycled. Commitment and a very careful planning I think in this particular issue is as important. That is why I suggested a committee of at least 10 -12 people be established to conduct hearings in each district and the report from these committees be the basis of organizing the conference. This will of of course require a careful planning and time and commitment from people to take the initiative to volunteer themselves in these committees. One of the problems we have with our people is their lack of interest in volunteering their time to help their own communities. Thanks, Vasco On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Robert Ejiku ejikurob...@gmail.comwrote: Caleb, You have said it even better. A convention, workshop oof any type would certainly bring some change but how committed are those who may not be sharing this problem with us right now? For instance does the CAO Arua or Nebbi think this is a problem? When you invite them at the hour of need they will send you one of those reps of theirs who may not even report back let alone direct policy or implementation at any stage. Its true we can not get everyone but thier commitment is paramount. Secondly such a convention needs alot of planning to realize the desired goals and that means time. Lets plan pray over it and implement. June is my earliest preference. Thank you, off to a meeting shortly and will be in touch later even on phone with some of you. Ejiku On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Caleb Alaka calebal...@yahoo.comwrote: Prof. Robert, I read your essay with tears, at times I feel like refusing to register my SIM cards and allowing to be switched off by UCC to avoid uncalled for heartaches from our region. Again the prospect of loosing business looms larger as a threat to the existence of my survival if my phone is switched off by UCC. Any way. Robert, if modern medicine fails to cure a strange disease or a long ailment, human beings resort to everything under the sky including, mysticism, witch crafty, superstition, spiritualism, salvation and mention it. The truth is all these are in most cases desperate measures, and believe you me, may be it gives a sense of hope. For donkey years, we have hoofed, puffed and gaffed over the death of education in our region. Fagil Mande the Chairman UNEB on TV lambasted mediocrity, and boldly stated that if you have mediocre teachers, who teach mediocre students in a mediocre school the results will surely be mediocre. I am not accusing any teacher since those are not my words. But those words sum up our situation. Prof, you, me and the rest have intervened in everything that affects us, if we had a convention say hosted in one of the schools, we invite all stake holders including Fagil Mande, we have two serious days of deliberation, we invite all head teachers from West Nile Schools or their representatives, business men, LC3, and V chairpersons, Education officers, RDCs, parents representatives, CAO's ourselves and MPs, Student representatives and we come up with resolutions which districts in West Nile can adopt as working documents including schools, and may be Government inclusive, then we see no change in attitudes of students, parents and school administrators and if we do not see improvement in results, I will gladly say, we did our part and may be resort to only prayers. Sorry these issues can only be expressed in form of essays. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2013, at 4:27 PM, aggrey adrale fetagrey2...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Caleb, Elly, et al, I like the way all of you have reacted or responded to this alarming report. As correctly observed, ...Nyapea is on its death bed. It is true, not only St. Alloysius College, but several other schools are in that same bracket; laying in state for us to pay our last respects to them before their burial. Also true, not only are the academic standards falling but also the infrastructure holding the delicate potential intellectuals are crumbling and some buildings silting up! School administrators even portray incognisance of such gradual decay, yet they have the student labour resource to mitigate some of the infrastructure challenges then there is little wonder they even cast a blind eye to the decaying academic standards; and no doubt their administrative acumen. By the way what has become of the long promised Government of Uganda conceived infrastructure rehabilitation projects of these prominent
[WestNileNet] Thank you
Hi Dear West Nilers, I would like to thank those who initiated such a group email where we can contribute ideas to develop our region. No one outside West Nile will come to do it for us. That should be our main focus. I also would like to thank Dr. Obaa Bernard of Makerere University for introducing me to this group email. I am a teacher trainer by profession currently pursuing masters at Makerere. My passion is the decline of our schools in the region. I am sure you guys must have talked about education in our region, but we should not give up. I look forward to contributing in this forum. God bless u all. ASEA BASIL 0772655255 --- On Fri, 3/1/13, Robert Ejiku ejikurob...@gmail.com wrote: From: Robert Ejiku ejikurob...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE EDUCATION CONFRENCE To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 4:02 AM Thank you Vasco, The word is commitment and most of our ideas will actually work. Perhaps we try address how to get 10-12 people committed and they will help us in understanding later how to get in and make a difference. Thank you once again. Ejiku On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Vasco Oguzua vogu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Folks, The commitment issue Robert has stressed in my view is the gist of a lot of our dilemma in addressing most problems we have talked, discussed and recycled. Commitment and a very careful planning I think in this particular issue is as important. That is why I suggested a committee of at least 10 -12 people be established to conduct hearings in each district and the report from these committees be the basis of organizing the conference. This will of of course require a careful planning and time and commitment from people to take the initiative to volunteer themselves in these committees. One of the problems we have with our people is their lack of interest in volunteering their time to help their own communities. Thanks, Vasco On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Robert Ejiku ejikurob...@gmail.com wrote: Caleb, You have said it even better. A convention, workshop oof any type would certainly bring some change but how committed are those who may not be sharing this problem with us right now? For instance does the CAO Arua or Nebbi think this is a problem? When you invite them at the hour of need they will send you one of those reps of theirs who may not even report back let alone direct policy or implementation at any stage. Its true we can not get everyone but thier commitment is paramount. Secondly such a convention needs alot of planning to realize the desired goals and that means time. Lets plan pray over it and implement. June is my earliest preference. Thank you, off to a meeting shortly and will be in touch later even on phone with some of you. Ejiku On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Caleb Alaka calebal...@yahoo.com wrote: Prof. Robert, I read your essay with tears, at times I feel like refusing to register my SIM cards and allowing to be switched off by UCC to avoid uncalled for heartaches from our region. Again the prospect of loosing business looms larger as a threat to the existence of my survival if my phone is switched off by UCC. Any way. Robert, if modern medicine fails to cure a strange disease or a long ailment, human beings resort to everything under the sky including, mysticism, witch crafty, superstition, spiritualism, salvation and mention it. The truth is all these are in most cases desperate measures, and believe you me, may be it gives a sense of hope. For donkey years, we have hoofed, puffed and gaffed over the death of education in our region. Fagil Mande the Chairman UNEB on TV lambasted mediocrity, and boldly stated that if you have mediocre teachers, who teach mediocre students in a mediocre school the results will surely be mediocre. I am not accusing any teacher since those are not my words. But those words sum up our situation. Prof, you, me and the rest have intervened in everything that affects us, if we had a convention say hosted in one of the schools, we invite all stake holders including Fagil Mande, we have two serious days of deliberation, we invite all head teachers from West Nile Schools or their representatives, business men, LC3, and V chairpersons, Education officers, RDCs, parents representatives, CAO's ourselves and MPs, Student representatives and we come up with resolutions which districts in West Nile can adopt as working documents including schools, and may be Government inclusive, then we see no change in attitudes of students, parents and school administrators and if we do not see improvement in results, I will gladly say, we did our part and may be resort to only prayers. Sorry these issues can only be expressed in form of essays. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 28, 2013, at 4:27 PM, aggrey adrale fetagrey2...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Caleb, Elly, et al, I like
Re: [WestNileNet] A-Level Results WN Results - Pg 8 Monitor
Let us re-arrange a few things in the mail from our Broder; Research apparently is a process to answer a question such as ..SO WHERE IS THE PROBLEM?. It sometimes starts as an ABSTRACT.You literally develop some THEORY in your mind. Quite often, this thought process may be SKEWED and sometimes it appears UNREALISTIC, but as you progress,you fine tune your thoughts and finally it makes sense.Meaning, you NEVER say NEVER. In other words, when you are desparately looking for a solution(as we are in this case from a point of anger and annoyance), you are bound to say or reason things that don't please others(.talking abstracts, never realistic, theoretical and skewed reasoning).The constructive and honorable approach to help your brother in such a situation is to reoarganise their reasoning to a more sensible piece. Ok, all words are good. But depending on how we use them, they can turn out to be offensive. Let us kindly moderate our own contributions so we gather as much to willow. From: Acidri Ernest wenichroni...@gmail.com To: George Afi Obitre-Gama gobi...@yahoo.com; A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 2:20 PM Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] A-Level Results WN Results - Pg 8 Monitor Members in this forum, You have raised some questions about UACE performance in West Nile. For some time, we have been discussing these issues on radio with head teachers, parents, students, political leaders etc. There are several factors that cause the decline. I agree with some of your suggestions, but some of you are talking abstracts, never realistic, theoretical and skewed reasoning on the topic. Let us have conference here in Arua and we shall examine all the options. There are some of you who have really helped through the OBs and OGs associations, so where is the problem and by the way, some of these schools mentioned will NEVER recover! Alfodi On 2/28/13, George Afi Obitre-Gama gobi...@yahoo.com wrote: Brethren, I have gone through the today's Monitor list(pg 8) of A-level rankings one by one(1-273) without seeing our prominent schools in West Nile apart from Mvara SS which is ranked a whooping no. 187!!! I don't see Ombaci, Muni, Nyapea and others and they happen not be listed - probably my eyes are getting old!! Tabu Butagira should probably clarify if another list exists - otherwise I see the performance as already pathetic not withstanding the fact that the best P7 Pupil in West Nile got an agg 7. I am very angry and annoyed. What is happening? Are we not engaging our youngsters enough!! ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. __ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
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Way to go Andama James. That is the commitment pledge everyone needs to make for any of these efforts to succeed. Thank you. Ejiku On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 5:06 PM, James Andama andajam2...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, I would like to join members of this forum in raising important questions about the declining performance of schools in West Nile region. At the same time, I would like to introduce myself to this forum as a son of West Nile who obtained his primary, secondary and tertiary education in West Nile before coming this way for further studies. Before I left west Nile I had an experience of teaching in Yivu Primary school for at least three years. I have been following the discussions on this forum very closely and I would like agree with following suggestions: 1. conducting a study to ascertain the root causes of the problem and share it with the various stake holders in conference in order to forge a way forward. 2. Forming a task force/ education committee to organise the study and the conference and any other activity that will lead us to finding solutions to this problem. I, therefore would like to declare that I'll be willing to participate in activities that will be organised to address this problem. Regards to you all. *Andama James, Ndegeya Core PTC P.O.BOX 63, Masaka +256 772421661 andamaja...@gmail.com admaja...@ecopa.org Skype: andajam* On 1 March 2013 04:44, Aseamque Basilorum basilele2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Dear West Nilers, I would like to thank those who initiated such a group email where we can contribute ideas to develop our region. No one outside West Nile will come to do it for us. That should be our main focus. I also would like to thank Dr. Obaa Bernard of Makerere University for introducing me to this group email. I am a teacher trainer by profession currently pursuing masters at Makerere. My passion is the decline of our schools in the region. I am sure you guys must have talked about education in our region, but we should not give up. I look forward to contributing in this forum. God bless u all. ASEA BASIL 0772655255 --- On *Fri, 3/1/13, Robert Ejiku ejikurob...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Robert Ejiku ejikurob...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WEST NILE EDUCATION CONFRENCE To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Friday, March 1, 2013, 4:02 AM Thank you Vasco, The word is commitment and most of our ideas will actually work. Perhaps we try address how to get 10-12 people committed and they will help us in understanding later how to get in and make a difference. Thank you once again. Ejiku On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Vasco Oguzua vogu...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=vogu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Folks, The commitment issue Robert has stressed in my view is the gist of a lot of our dilemma in addressing most problems we have talked, discussed and recycled. Commitment and a very careful planning I think in this particular issue is as important. That is why I suggested a committee of at least 10 -12 people be established to conduct hearings in each district and the report from these committees be the basis of organizing the conference. This will of of course require a careful planning and time and commitment from people to take the initiative to volunteer themselves in these committees. One of the problems we have with our people is their lack of interest in volunteering their time to help their own communities. Thanks, Vasco On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Robert Ejiku ejikurob...@gmail.comhttp://mc/compose?to=ejikurob...@gmail.com wrote: Caleb, You have said it even better. A convention, workshop oof any type would certainly bring some change but how committed are those who may not be sharing this problem with us right now? For instance does the CAO Arua or Nebbi think this is a problem? When you invite them at the hour of need they will send you one of those reps of theirs who may not even report back let alone direct policy or implementation at any stage. Its true we can not get everyone but thier commitment is paramount. Secondly such a convention needs alot of planning to realize the desired goals and that means time. Lets plan pray over it and implement. June is my earliest preference. Thank you, off to a meeting shortly and will be in touch later even on phone with some of you. Ejiku On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Caleb Alaka calebal...@yahoo.comhttp://mc/compose?to=calebal...@yahoo.com wrote: Prof. Robert, I read your essay with tears, at times I feel like refusing to register my SIM cards and allowing to be switched off by UCC to avoid uncalled for heartaches from our region. Again the prospect of loosing business looms larger as a threat to the existence of my survival if my phone is switched off by UCC. Any way. Robert, if modern medicine fails to cure a strange disease or a long
