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Lacking Classrooms

I was catching up on what's been going on at home, and I came across an article that mentioned that secondary-eligible students in the Rukwa region will not able to attend secondary school because there is a lack of classrooms.

This presents one cause of several that lead up to students not being able to progress beyond secondary-level education in Tanzania. While our Government continues to try and improve conditions that make secondary education more feasible, I think it's also important to think about how else we can help secondary-eligible students progress... Yes, we can try market-oriented measures to up the income of low-income workers. Yes, we can try improving and increasing the number of classrooms. Yes, we can try attracting more teachers. Yes, we can try and improve access to employment opportunities after secondary education attainment.

But could we also try to see if there are other alternatives to "a school"? Are there other educational mediums that we can use for secondary-eligible students who were/are not able to enroll into schools?

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  1. PecasJanuary 9, 2009 at 7:30 AM

    What a shame that this is the situation... sometimes politicians don't want to see beyond what the cards on the table depict... and they choose to lean on it and blame it on the "lack of" x factor, rather than thinking outside the box. Or at least trying to.

    ps. idk why i never checked out your webpage... =]

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