Since the total collapse of The Sierra Leone Students Union in the UK in the early 1980s, efforts and interests developed among the various alumnae/ Ex-pupils of Secondary Schools of Sierra Leone resident in the Diaspora especially the UK and the USA to give their support financially and otherwise in assisting and maintaining educational standards in the country and thus formed linked Associations with the parent schools back home.
All types of Fund raising activities and functions are embarked on and very great input of time, energies and personal finances are deployed to achieve success in each school. Governments after governments of all Political and Military colours have glossed over the efforts of the Diasporians, with scanty acknowledgment of their input. The schools' authorities and Home Ex-pupils Associations and Unions try to do their level best to give encouragement to the philanthropic ideals of their counterparts abroad and hold the fort and oversee the outcomes.
It is disheartening today that even after 3 decades (not withstanding the disruptions of the 11 years war, the recent Ebola intervention and the world economic disruptions) the country's educational system stagnates. From the evidence and reports recently, not only standards are deteriorating, but the level of behaviour of school pupils is nothing short of Lawlessness and hooliganism. From the attached clips extracted from News bulletins by the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Cooperation, SLBC, most recently, it shows that The Ministry of Education is lacking in its responsibilities and running short of being an effective Educational Arm of the Government. Ghost students, ghosts teachers, fake BECE results, gangs in schools, over crowded classrooms, teachers selling phamplets to pupils to make themselves a bit on the side to survive!!!. This is quite telling!
IT IS TIME FOR ALL THE EXECUTIVES OF THE SCHOOLS IN THE UK (and perhaps the The USA) TO HOLD A ONE DAY CONFERENCE AS A BODY OF LIKE MINDS, TO EXPLORE THE VISICITUDES OF THEIR RELATIONSHIPS WITH THEIR PARENT SCHOOLS AND PEER INTO THE DEPLOYMENT OF HARD WORKED SUPPORT FUNDING THAT ASSIST THESE ESTABLISHMENTS BECAUSE THE PICTURE THUS FAR IS UNSATISFACTORY!
CLICK EACH VIDEO BELOW FOR REPORTS:
Book supply from an Oversea Charity
Ministry of Education on Spot Checks
Albert Academy, Rokel & Model Secondary Schools ??
Complaints by children - Negative experiences
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Fake IPAM Student Remanded
By Jane B. Mansaray
Principal Magistrate Dr. Binneh Kamara of Freetown Magistrate Court No.1 yesterday remanded two accused persons Marcus Kanu and Abdul Mohamed Kamara at the Pademba Road Male Correctional Center for the offense of Academic Malpractices at the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM).
The accused were arraigned on four counts of conspiracy to commit a crime, willfully making false statement and procuring to obtain Mathematics paper in a University examination contrary to the Perjury Act 1911.
According to the particulars of offence, the accused on the 20th June 2016 at Saint Edwards Secondary School Kingtom in Freetown conspired with others to commit a crime to wit willfully making false statement knowing same to be false.
The other count states that the first accused, Marcus Kanu who claimed to be Abdul Mohamed Kamara on the said date at the above address in Freetown made a false statement that he is a third year student and that he is required to take the Mathematics Paper in the examination conducted by IPAM for year one students knowing same to be false.
In his testimony in court, the first Prosecution Witness, Darlington Bockarie Bangura an Administrative staff at the said university in Sierra Leone said he saw the accused person on the date of the incident at the exams hall at Kingtom.
He said he recalled on the 20th June 2016 while he was distributing exams draft papers at the Saint Edwards Secondary School.
The witness said that after distributing the draft paper, he was intimated by one Jeremiah Victor Harding, an invigilator at the exams hall of the accused.
Based on the Information, the witness said he reported the matter to his immediate boss and later he had cause to approach the first accused at the exams hall where the accused told him that he is a third year student studying Applied Accounting.
The witness continued that the accused also gave his full name as Abdul Mohamed Kamara.
The witness testimony was discontinued and the matter was adjourned to the 14th July 2016 for further evidence.
Police Inspector Hawa Bah is prosecuting the matter
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