Education Minister Announces Reforms for the Year 2013-2014
The Western Equatoria State General Education Minister Philip Pia has announced new measures to uplift the education standards in the state. 20 March 2013 Western Equatoria State General Education Minister Philip Pia. [Gurtong | File] By Joseph Nashion YAMBIO, 19 March 2013 [Gurtong] - Among the changes includes having a unified calendar and time table in all schools and shifting focus on sciences and re-enforcement of real pedagogy of education. All students and pupils must attend classes for least 210 working days every year and not less than 70 days per term. The minister said that this is to enable them cover the entire syllabus instead of the previous system where schools were opening in March. This year, schools were opened in February and all classes in Upper primary will start at 8:30 am and stop at 3:30 pm with the lower primary classes starting at 8:30am and conclude at 1.00pm. To boost the performance in sciences, the minister said that, laboratory equipments have been taken to Tombura, Yabongo, Yambio Lui secondary schools to be used by the students. This is to boost sciences in Secondary school in WES. The minister said that all teachers must have a scheme of work, lesson plan, preparation book and a watch. He urged parents to wake their kids early to prepare for school and they should always provide something for them to eat while at school. He said that the Parents Teachers Association (PTA) members should always visit schools to check whether lessons are going on as required and that pupils and students should avoid spending most of their time watching football and ridding boda boda but they should dedicate their time for reading books. Posted in: Home, Education -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
