Focus on quality education

Letters

WESTERN Highlands Governor Paias Wingti has a right vision for Education in the province.
A number of new schools established during Wingti’s term are in operation and most school aged students access basic education.
However, the challenge on the ground is the quality aspect.
There are insufficient teaching and learning materials particularly science laboratory materials (biology, chemistry and physics) that can be used by qualified science teachers to demonstrate in parallel to the theoretical knowledge taught.
There’s a lack of specialist teachers in English, Mathematics and Science, Social Science.
Most of the academic staff are generally trained and are not well articulated in creating an environment that influences student-centered learning.
Unlike primary school teachers, secondary schools require qualified subject content educators to effectively plan, write termly programmes and actually teach lessons.
Establishing a school is one thing and how these schools perform depends on the quality of teachers and the availability of teaching and learning materials.

Jack Kukiwa,
Mul-Baiyer Wane