Dear Patrick, Thanks for your piece. To narrow the gap you have to encourage the current students and administration of the schools in question to deliberately seek ties with the better schools. There was little schools who accepted Mvara's visits did to encourage them to take the bold steps other than accepting to be visited and opening up to the visitors. As old students we have a role to inspire and encourage the current generation of students, teachers and stakeholders to change their approaches to improving education and breaking away from fear. The good brains elsewhere are not necessarily born bright; it's through careful and purposeful training and instruction that they open up and get where they are. Student and teachers need to know that the purpose of education and examinations is to gain knowledge in a subject, test the extent of understanding the concepts, test applications of the concepts and think how the learnt concept can be useful to the developments of the world. Further to these is to research on examples of where the concepts have ever been applied with the successes and failures and the reasons why. Once the students and teachers get themselves into this kind of study and instruction modes coupled with the teaching and learning resources then we can leap a step. Within our means we have to solve the resource, roles and attitude gaps of all the stakeholders. Aggrey Adrale
--- On Sun, 20/3/11, patrick gatre <[email protected]> wrote: From: patrick gatre <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] A LEVEL RESULTS 2010. To: "A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 20 March, 2011, 12:20 T o do that we need to narrow the gap btn these traditional schools and other rural schools. Allow me express one of the thinking of other schools in regard to what we are aiming at. 'When i was in senior two, i was elected the vice chairperson Otravu science club. In the due course of organizing seminars, i suggested we had an external seminar including giant schools like Mvara,Ombachi,Muni,Arua piblic and Muni ss and the room roared at me that we cant compete with those schools otherwise they will disapprove all our discussants and this was proved when i was then in Mvara for my A'level, in organizing Physics,Maths and economics (coordinator economics) i rearly show replies from schools like Maracha,yumbe,nebbi,otravu for seminars at mvara and ombachi." Dear bother Gilbert you have just reminded of the fear and gap that exists among our schools in westnile but i think forming bodies that will make use of student leaders,teachers,headteachers,academic clubs and increasing on the number of both examiners and markers as suggested to me by Mr.Acidri working at UNEB office, would all in all,gradually help us achieve something instead of not suggesting how we could go about doing it. On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Gilbert Ringtho <[email protected]> wrote: Congrats Mvara for the positive match...other schools will find it good to start looking closely in this direction. We can build on this. rgds Gilbert From: Ejibua Sam <[email protected]> To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, 18 March, 2011 15:16:45 Subject: [WestNileNet] A LEVEL RESULTS 2010. Hello Aggrey and all, I have been reading some of the postings on the A level results and wanting to respond but yet holding back. I was looking forward to having a general pattern in West Nile, picking on our traditional schools such as Nyapea, Warr Girls in Nebbi, Koboko, Mvara, Ombaci, Pokea, Maracha, Ediofe and Muni in the greater Arua, Metu in Moyo etc. Some of the information I have is scanty and may not suffice as accurate. This aside, I must say I appreciate the efforts by all to sound the alarms of academic decay and seeking answers on what should be done. It is comendeble to loud Mvara for posting good principals, I would like note that this is a combination of factors: Consistently the Mvara administration and stakeholders have been patching different approaches together: Among these, the study visits, career day, old students awards/rewards, the book drive etc in an attempt to motivate the students and teachers to improve performance. These are not exactly the most perfect approaches, but they seem to be impacting positively on the students (see below) No. of principals 2009 students 2010 students 4 principals 36 43 3 principals 65 65 2 principals 40 41 1 principal 31 18 0 principals 10 05 Best arts combinations are: HED/G - 3ABBCC, HEG/EPS - 2ABBD, HED/L - 2ABCD. Best science combination is: PEM/EPS - 5BBCC. In my opinion, this is an upward direction and can improve, but needs to be sustained by a concerted effort of all actors. We need a forum (I dont mean cyberspace) where challenges, lessons learnt, possible actions can be discussed and shared among all stakeholders including teachers, school leadership and parents. Mvara Old Students Association, has come up a think tank that is sitting to engage in such an analysis and hopefully we shall invite all who are interested at a convinient time. TIll then... Sam _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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. _______________________________________________ -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ WestNileNet mailing list [email protected] http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ 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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