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The Ministry of Education for 1965 REPORT OF THE MINISTRY OF EDUCATION FOR 1965 INCLUDING STATISTICS FOR 1963-4 AND DEVELOPMENTS IN 1964-5 SIERRA LEONE GOVERNMENT Price— TWENTY CENTS FREETOWN PRINTED AT THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING DEPARTMENT, SIERRA LEONE. Reçu ÍTj^ZãuEõ " Cote t*s.impl. N° Entrée-(js... EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS IN SIERRA LEONE 1964—65 1. A dministration : (a) Administrative Measures. The new Education Act became law during the year. Its main effect is to empower the Minister to create Boards of Governors for all secondary schools and train¬ ing colleges which are assisted out of public funds. The present proprietors of such schools and colleges will be represented by 5 members on these Boards and the Local Authorities by 2, whilst the remaining 5 members will be appointed direct by the Minister. The development programme in education for the period 1964-1970 drawn up by Dr. G. F. Sleight, a Unesco Expert in Educational Planning, in consultation with the Minis¬ try, was approved by the Government subject to certain reservations; and a start has been made with its implementation. The Special Fund of the United Nations approved a request for assistance with the expansion of the Milton Margai Training College so as to double its capacity and provide for another 250 places there, to be used for the training of secondary school teachers. A Mission from the I.D.A. visited the country in connection with a request for assistance from that Association for buildings to implement this development programme. The nucleus of a planning unit has been set up within the Ministry with the Assistant Chief Education Officer in overall charge, assisted by a Statistician. The new Act prohibits discrimination in education, and the Government hopes shortly to ratify the UNESCO convention against such discrimination. (b) Inspection. The number of Inspectors has been increased from 10 to 18 to ensure that at least one is attached to each of the 14 Local Authorities. A bi-annual meeting of all Inspectors with the Headquarters staff of the Ministry has been instituted to improve the communication of information and ideas within the Ministry. (c) Finance. The estimated recurrent expenditure by the Ministry for 1965—66 is Le. 5,884,694 compared with Le. 5,030,842 for 1964-65. The estimated capital expenditure in the current financial year is Le. 856,676 compared with Le. 772,668 for last year. These figures again exclude about Le200,000 of expendi¬ ture by Local Authorities on education, most of which comes from primary school fees. Also excluded are figures in respect of the new University College at Njala which falls within the portfolio of the Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources. These are Le. 452,038 for recurrent and Le. 870,000 for capital expenditure. (d) School and College Buildings: (i) The number of primary schools has increased to 794 in 1964-5. The Central Government in addition to paying 60 per cent of the capital cost of new primary schools (the balance being met by Local Authorities), has launched a pilot project for the construction of primary schools through the co-operation of 4 parties: U.S. AID providing the roofing materials, the steel frames and the tools; the Ministry of Education providing the cement and the transport to District Headquarters; the District Council providing technical supervision, storage, and transport from District Council headquarters to the sites; and the local community providing the voluntary labour and local materials such as stone, sand and timber. 150 classrooms are to be built under this pilot project this year, and if it suceeds it will be extended next year. (ii) Secondary Schools. The number of secondary schools increased from 48 in 1963-4 to 59 in 1965-6 and most secondary schools receive regular capital assistance from Government for expansion. The re-housing of the Koyeima Secondary School with Canadian assistance is expected to start next school year. A total of Le 111,000 was spent in the capital development of secondary schools last financial year and the estimate for the current financial year is Lei 15,000. (iii) Technical Institutions. No new technical institutions were established during the year but in the development pro¬ gramme there are plans for setting up a number of technical units within existing secondary schools. Technical teachers continue to be trained abroad, particularly in Israel, and a new course for training commercial teachers was opened at the Technical Institute, with the co-operation of the Milton Margai Training College. A new selection procedure was used for admission to full-time Trade Training courses using aptitude tests devised by Dr. J. L. M. Dawson of the University of Edinburgh. (iv) Teacher Training. Work was begun on the new Women's Training College at Port Loko to be built from funds provided by the Swedish Government. This Col¬ lege will admit 60 students in January, 1966 and will grow to an enrolment of about 200 students. A Day Training College was opened in Freetown, the first of its kind in the country; and it runs courses for both non-residential full-time students and non-residential part-time students, both types of course leading to the Teachers' Certificate. The number of teachers in training in the Teachers' Certificate Course increased from 206 to 262, whilst in the Diploma in Education course of the Department of Education, Fourah Bay College, the number of Sierra Leoneans increased from 10 in 1962-3 to 16 in 1964-5. (v) Higher Education. Capital development continued at Fourah Bay College, the University College of S'erra Leone with new buildings being opened for the Library and work continuing on a new 9-storey building for the Faculties of Economics and Arts to be known as the J. F. Kennedy building. A new building for the Departments of Education and Modern Languages was opened. The concessional entry to degree courses from Ordinary level 3 was extended at the request of Government to the Faculty of Science and will probably now become the standard level of entry; the length of course being 4 years instead of the 3-year course followed by those with Advanced Level qualifications. The Government increased consi¬ derably the number of scholarships available with the result that 313 Sierra Leoneans were enrolled at the College in October, 1964 as compared with 217 in Octo¬ ber, the previous year. Most of the students at the Njala University College are also on Government Scholarship. (vi) National Library. The Library services continued to expand, the emphasis now being on the opening of new branches in the Provinces. New branches were opened in Makeni, Kenema, Koidu and Bonthe. 2. Quantitative Development : The number of pupils and teachers in 1964-5 were: — 120,800 „ Teachers 3,777 Secondary Pupils 12,942 665 „ Teachers Technical and Vocational Pupils 1,571 Teachers 69 Teacher—Training Students 987 84 „ Staff .. University Students 702 Staff 102 Note :—Part-time teachers not shown. 3. Organization and Structure: (а) Pre-Primary Education. There are 5 Nursery Schools, 3 in the Provinces. The Central Government continues to pay a grant towards the salaries of all qualified staff and to award scholar¬ ships to teachers who wish to be trained in this field. (б) Special Schools. The Milton Margai School for the Blind continued its work in Freetown and Cheshire Homes continued to provide facilities for handicapped children in Bo and Free¬ town. A new School for the Deaf and Dumb will shortly be opened in Freetown, to be managed by the Society for the Deaf and Dumb, and a teacher trained in Britain to run this school has returned. (c) Primary Education. The basic primary course continues to be of 7 years duration. Children are admitted at the age of 5 + (d) Secondary Education. Admission is through the Selective Entrance Examination. The proportion of those sitting to those selected is still about 25 per cent. The aim is to diversify the curriculum in all secondary schools so as to provide more technical places. In addition certain rural schools will have an agricultural bias, others in towns will have a technical bias, and certain girls' schools a vocational bias. There continue to be external examinations at the end of the third, fifth and seventh years of the courses. Only 9 of the present secondary schools have a Sixth Form. (e) Teacher-Training. The last in-take into the Teachers' Elemen¬ tary Certificate, a 3-year post-primary course was admitted in September, 1964. This course will finally disappear in July, 1967, after which all the places in the 8 training colleges will be used for training at either Teachers' Certificate level (3 years' training following at least 3 years' secondary education) or at the Teachers' Advanced Certificate level (3 years' training following School Certificate). In addition to the general Teachers' Advanced Certificate course Specialist Teachers' Advanced Certificate courses in Physical Education, Domestic Science, Art and Music are provided. At present all the Teachers' Advanced Certificate places are in the Milton Margai Training College near Freetown. Ultimately admission to Teachers' Certificate courses will be from Form V of the secondary school. (/) Technical and Vocational Education. Full-time, part-time and day-release courses are available in 2 Trade Centres and 2 Technical Institutes in a variety of fields including Motor Vehicle Mechanics, Painting and Decorating, Brickwork, Plumb¬ ing, Electrical Installation, Welding, Engineering Craft Practice, Telecommunications and Carpentry and Joinery. Fourah Bay College, the University College of Sierra Leone continues to run a 3-year Diploma in Engineering course, and hopes to start a Degree course in Engineering in October, 1965. (g) Higher Education.
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