By Crispina Cummings
The principal of the Annie Walsh Memorial School in Freetown has called on the government to revive curriculum centers in the country because “the country needs to put premium on teaching syllabus and there is no functional curriculum center in the country”.
Mrs. Ophelia Morisson made the call while speaking at a public sector accountability conference on public financial management for secondary schools in the Western Area.
For the past five years, she said, that the country had been using borrowed curriculum from Ghana, adding that if the curriculum was revived in the country, people who were ready to serve the country would be able to have the tools to do the work.
The principal said newly admitted teachers are just told to “teach from anywhere because there is no curriculum from the education ministry”. She said that she had raised the issue at various meetings of the conference of principals "and even with the minister himself".
Another issue that was raised by the chairmen of various committees, at the meeting was that of teachers doubling as bursars. The principals were advised to employ "competent people who would serve as bursars instead of teachers playing the double role so as to avoid monetary gaps".
Western Area chairman, conference of principals, Sylvester Meheaux, said that he had been making enquiries from colleagues in other countries on the keys to their successes, one of which, he said, was school broadcasting. He promised that such would start soon.
(C) Politico 07/08/14
