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Alaka, What you describe here if put into a ninety minute film will definately be one to beat. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Caleb Alaka calebal...@yahoo.com wrote: By the way folks, were is vol.1 issue 1. Any way , Tabua and Gili, I understand that students from our schools in West Nile are shy to be seen reading. The story goes further that when you are seen over cracking books guys will isolate you, laugh at you and claim that you are poor. Most of these chaps even claim that they have already booked rooms in a hall of residence and or a prominent hostel in MUK, KIU,MUST, Kyambogo, UCU, Nkumba, Nkozi and IUIU . they even claim that for them they are assured of going to campus as privately sponsored students. So every one in the school begin shunning so called 'book worms and those who would wish to work hard suddenly develop low self esteem. Talk of a tragic script. On the Other hand, schools in the Central and western region are competing to appear in the newspapers. Talk of the biblical allusion of to those who have more shall be added and those who do not have even the small will be taken. Talk of tragic flows, labour reserve, Kasamvu's, wars, Anyanya's, poverty and ya a collapse of a generation. The script is nauseating and I feel sick watching the tragedy. Good day. ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___ ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
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Hi Guys, Patrick and Samuel, indeed many students of higher learning often face problems in identifying topical thesis cases for their researches. So many issues have been identified on this forum that actually form practical thesis topics for our students to infact contribute to the noble cause of finding lasting solutions to our problems. I would therefore suggest somebody collects these topical issues and perhaps distribute them to these higher institutions for our brethren to research upon and feedback. We would ultimately rely on such researches for decision making. We could as well provide guidance in the course of those undertaking the research to enable us to benefit and as well as the student to attain his/her academic award. What do you think?? Gilbert Adibo On 09/03/2009, samuel andema andema...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi Patrick, Thank you for responding to fr Rofino's mail. Am glad you too see the need to be armed with hard facts and figures to confront the challenge. It is the best tool we can use to make our case. I wonder what kind of researces our students at the universities are doing. I would expect many students to be competin to research on such practical problems at all levels. Unfortunately the kind of education offered at the universities these days does not prepare students to be of any use to practical problems afflicting us. They would rather concoct abstract things to get first class only to fail miserably in life. I hope some one will follow Mr Adriko to volunteer to compile for us a statistical data on the poor performance for five or even ten years in the past across westnile. I like the work you did on the declining performance in Ombaci in your proposal for the reward project. The statistics speaks for itself. The comparisons are so obvous to make. No wonder you were the best UCE candidate in the whole of Uganda in 1985. God bless. One of these days you have to seriously consider taking the PhD path. I have no doubt what so ever that you will make it in record time. Thank you and have a blessed week Sam Andema University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada --- On *Mon, 9/3/09, Patrick Okuni paok...@yahoo.com* wrote: From: Patrick Okuni paok...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Monday, 9 March, 2009, 8:31 AM Hi Father Thank you for this very simple and snappy, but useful opinion survey. Again the substance came from the women! We need to collect more such opinions and factual information (like the hard data you shared on Arua Hill). I am wondering if we could work together to get a good Education or Statistics student to do a thesis around this issue, to enable us have authentic information to work around with more confidence and authority. Let's give it some thought. Nice week. Patrick Okuni --- On *Sun, 8/3/09, Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com* wrote: From: Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Sunday, 8 March, 2009, 4:19 PM Yes Alaka Greetings from Ombaci. I hope all is fine there. This morning I went to celebrate Mass at Ewadri (between Abi Farm and Oriajini). It was nice to wish women Happy Women's day. I asked these people at the end of Mass what (according to them) are causing poor results in schools these days. Out of six people who talked five were women. a) the first woman said this could be attributed too much liking for night dances, eating of marungi which makes their interests to be divided b) another said she heard on the radio that teachers are poorly paid and they dont teach. c) another blamed the UPE USE where children are not to be punsihed thesedays. Children misbehave, they dont respect teachers and even insult them d) one stated that today freedom is free. I dont know what she meant exactly. But she continued observing that they buy kersone for these children to study and they leave the lamps on while they have sneaked out. Some elderly people see these children out at odd times and no body cares about such a situation e) another woman said that they parents cant even offer some lunch for these children. What they could use for preparing food for them are instead sold in the market for cash which is not used for the children. f) the only man who spoke pointed out to the children, parents and teachers all on the wrong. I wish you a good sunday, happy women's day to our sisters -- Ruffino Ezama,mccj Comboni Missionaries P.O Box 3872 Kampala Uganda (+256 77 2 62 42 40) (+256 75 2 62 42 40) ruffino.ez...@gmail.comhttp://us.mc301.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ruffino.ez...@gmail.com ezama.ruff...@gmail.comhttp://us.mc301.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ezama.ruff...@gmail.com ruff...@cmpmail.comhttp
RE: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72
Team, We must thank the taskforce team to voluntarily take up the responsibility of spearheading this noble cause and Fr Ruffino's passion is really exceptional A lot has already been deliberated on the form and context of the task force but I am sure it will make work easier if we provided tentative terms of reference to the task force to proceed. What is our main objective, what do we want achieve, should this first be limited to an audit of the status quo, what areas do you we focus on Regards Godfrey From: westnilenet-boun...@kym.net [mailto:westnilenet-boun...@kym.net] On Behalf Of samuel andema Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 8:58 AM To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 Hi Patrick, Thank you for responding to fr Rofino's mail. Am glad you too see the need to be armed with hard facts and figures to confront the challenge. It is the best tool we can use to make our case. I wonder what kind of researces our students at the universities are doing. I would expect many students to be competin to research on such practical problems at all levels. Unfortunately the kind of education offered at the universities these days does not prepare students to be of any use to practical problems afflicting us. They would rather concoct abstract things to get first class only to fail miserably in life. I hope some one will follow Mr Adriko to volunteer to compile for us a statistical data on the poor performance for five or even ten years in the past across westnile. I like the work you did on the declining performance in Ombaci in your proposal for the reward project. The statistics speaks for itself. The comparisons are so obvous to make. No wonder you were the best UCE candidate in the whole of Uganda in 1985. God bless. One of these days you have to seriously consider taking the PhD path. I have no doubt what so ever that you will make it in record time. Thank you and have a blessed week Sam Andema University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada --- On Mon, 9/3/09, Patrick Okuni paok...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Patrick Okuni paok...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Monday, 9 March, 2009, 8:31 AM Hi Father Thank you for this very simple and snappy, but useful opinion survey. Again the substance came from the women! We need to collect more such opinions and factual information (like the hard data you shared on Arua Hill). I am wondering if we could work together to get a good Education or Statistics student to do a thesis around this issue, to enable us have authentic information to work around with more confidence and authority. Let's give it some thought. Nice week. Patrick Okuni --- On Sun, 8/3/09, Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Sunday, 8 March, 2009, 4:19 PM Yes Alaka Greetings from Ombaci. I hope all is fine there. This morning I went to celebrate Mass at Ewadri (between Abi Farm and Oriajini). It was nice to wish women Happy Women's day. I asked these people at the end of Mass what (according to them) are causing poor results in schools these days. Out of six people who talked five were women. a) the first woman said this could be attributed too much liking for night dances, eating of marungi which makes their interests to be divided b) another said she heard on the radio that teachers are poorly paid and they dont teach. c) another blamed the UPE USE where children are not to be punsihed thesedays. Children misbehave, they dont respect teachers and even insult them d) one stated that today freedom is free. I dont know what she meant exactly. But she continued observing that they buy kersone for these children to study and they leave the lamps on while they have sneaked out. Some elderly people see these children out at odd times and no body cares about such a situation e) another woman said that they parents cant even offer some lunch for these children. What they could use for preparing food for them are instead sold in the market for cash which is not used for the children. f) the only man who spoke pointed out to the children, parents and teachers all on the wrong. I wish you a good sunday, happy women's day to our sisters -- Ruffino Ezama,mccj Comboni Missionaries P.O Box 3872 Kampala Uganda (+256 77 2 62 42 40) (+256 75 2 62 42 40) ruffino.ez...@gmail.com http
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Dear Fr. Ruffino Greetings to you and members of West Nile Community Thank you father for the initiative you took to find out what could be the likely causes of poor education performance in our region. I do appreciate your efforts also do concur with you. Hence I propose that in order to improve education performance in our schools, we need a multi-prong approach. Therefore I suggest the following:- 1) We need to randomly carry out simple cross-sectional survey in our region e.g 100 surveys in Towns of West Nile, 50 surveys in each Say Sub-counties. This can be done while we wait for a big research in future. The findings of the survey could be discussed during an open debate which you are planning to organise. 2) In the debate, there should be a key note address by an educationalist where results of the survey and the previous results of the performance are discussed. (Take note of subjects e.g. Sciences Vs Arts) 3) The following should be invited to attend the debate in person:- i) Chairperson LCV and the LCV councillors since they do discuss the districts budget and planning. ii) Head teachers of the schools. iii)MPs from West Nile (Take note: No campaigns and politicking only issues pertaining to Education) iv) DEOs and the CAO. v) PTA Chairmen and Chairmen Board of governors for the schools. vi) Bank managers to discuss how the banks can help schools acquire soft loans in order to build some training facilities e.g. Laboratories and also lab equipments. vii)Religious Leaders. viii) NGOs ix) Some of our development partners. 4) After the debate, members should be organised in different groups to discuss the factors affecting performance of our schools and make resolutions of how to solve the problems. 5) Finally a Policy should be made by our Leaders i.e. CAO, DEO and LCV councillors following the resolutions made by the people. What is agreed upon should be operationalized and monitored hence evaluation mechanism must be taken note of. I would also propose that in addition to the discussants, the following should be allocated some time e.g. 10 minutes to present a paper on the way forward:- i) CAO ii) DEO iii) Church Leaders e.g. Bishops and District Khadi iv) A representative of a Bank v) A representative of NGO vi) Chairman West Nile Parliamentarians. Vii) Chairman West Nile Teachers Association. Finally “When hen or cock feeds, it scratches towards itself” it doesn’t scratch in opposite direction. So it’s upon us from west Nile to solve our own problems. “Life is best understood backwards but we live it forwards” So having understood our setbacks, we should take note of how to improve and protect the education performance in our schools. --- On Mon, 9/3/09, Patrick Okuni paok...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Patrick Okuni paok...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Monday, 9 March, 2009, 7:31 AM Hi Father Thank you for this very simple and snappy, but useful opinion survey. Again the substance came from the women! We need to collect more such opinions and factual information (like the hard data you shared on Arua Hill). I am wondering if we could work together to get a good Education or Statistics student to do a thesis around this issue, to enable us have authentic information to work around with more confidence and authority. Let's give it some thought. Nice week. Patrick Okuni --- On Sun, 8/3/09, Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Sunday, 8 March, 2009, 4:19 PM Yes Alaka Greetings from Ombaci. I hope all is fine there. This morning I went to celebrate Mass at Ewadri (between Abi Farm and Oriajini). It was nice to wish women Happy Women's day. I asked these people at the end of Mass what (according to them) are causing poor results in schools these days. Out of six people who talked five were women. a) the first woman said this could be attributed too much liking for night dances, eating of marungi which makes their interests to be divided b) another said she heard on the radio that teachers are poorly paid and they dont teach. c) another blamed the UPE USE where children are not to be punsihed thesedays. Children misbehave, they dont respect teachers and even insult them d) one stated that today freedom is free. I dont know what she meant exactly. But she continued observing that they buy kersone for these children to study and they leave the lamps on while they have sneaked out. Some elderly people see these children out at odd times and no body cares about such a situation e) another woman said that they parents cant even offer some lunch
Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72
Dear Fr. Ruffino Greetings to you and members of West Nile Community Thank you father for the initiative you took to find out what could be the likely causes of poor education performance in our region. I do appreciate your efforts also do concur with you. Hence I propose that in order to improve education performance in our schools, we need a multi-prong approach. Therefore I suggest the following:- 1) We need to randomly carry out simple cross-sectional survey in our region e.g 100 surveys in Towns of West Nile, 50 surveys in each Say Sub-counties. This can be done while we wait for a big research in future. The findings of the survey could be discussed during an open debate which you are planning to organise. 2) In the debate, there should be a key note address by an educationalist where results of the survey and the previous results of the performance are discussed. (Take note of subjects e.g. Sciences Vs Arts) 3) The following should be invited to attend the debate in person:- i) Chairperson LCV and the LCV councillors since they do discuss the districts budget and planning. ii) Head teachers of the schools. iii)MPs from West Nile (Take note: No campaigns and politicking only issues pertaining to Education) iv) DEOs and the CAO. v) PTA Chairmen and Chairmen Board of governors for the schools. vi) Bank managers to discuss how the banks can help schools acquire soft loans in order to build some training facilities e.g. Laboratories and also lab equipments. vii)Religious Leaders. viii) NGOs ix) Some of our development partners. 4) After the debate, members should be organised in different groups to discuss the factors affecting performance of our schools and make resolutions of how to solve the problems. 5) Finally a Policy should be made by our Leaders i.e. CAO, DEO and LCV councillors following the resolutions made by the people. What is agreed upon should be operationalized and monitored hence evaluation mechanism must be taken note of. I would also propose that in addition to the discussants, the following should be allocated some time e.g. 10 minutes to present a paper on the way forward:- i) CAO ii) DEO iii) Church Leaders e.g. Bishops and District Khadi iv) A representative of a Bank v) A representative of NGO vi) Chairman West Nile Parliamentarians. Vii) Chairman West Nile Teachers Association. Finally “When hen or cock feeds, it scratches towards itself” it doesn’t scratch in opposite direction. So it’s upon us from west Nile to solve our own problems. “Life is best understood backwards but we live it forwards” So having understood our setbacks, we should take note of how to improve and protect the education performance in our schools. --- On Mon, 9/3/09, Patrick Okuni paok...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Patrick Okuni paok...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Monday, 9 March, 2009, 7:31 AM Hi Father Thank you for this very simple and snappy, but useful opinion survey. Again the substance came from the women! We need to collect more such opinions and factual information (like the hard data you shared on Arua Hill). I am wondering if we could work together to get a good Education or Statistics student to do a thesis around this issue, to enable us have authentic information to work around with more confidence and authority. Let's give it some thought. Nice week. Patrick Okuni --- On Sun, 8/3/09, Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Sunday, 8 March, 2009, 4:19 PM Yes Alaka Greetings from Ombaci. I hope all is fine there. This morning I went to celebrate Mass at Ewadri (between Abi Farm and Oriajini). It was nice to wish women Happy Women's day. I asked these people at the end of Mass what (according to them) are causing poor results in schools these days. Out of six people who talked five were women. a) the first woman said this could be attributed too much liking for night dances, eating of marungi which makes their interests to be divided b) another said she heard on the radio that teachers are poorly paid and they dont teach. c) another blamed the UPE USE where children are not to be punsihed thesedays. Children misbehave, they dont respect teachers and even insult them d) one stated that today freedom is free. I dont know what she meant exactly. But she continued observing that they buy kersone for these children to study and they leave the lamps on while they have sneaked out. Some elderly people see these children out at odd times and no body cares about such a situation e) another woman said that they parents cant even offer some lunch
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Alaka, am convinced the 'false-comfort-zone' attitude is a major factor in the poor academic performance. Surprisingly, these guys feel all is OK, most even dont have a career dream, yet this usually fuels the drive to aim high. Instead they actually aim low as you have elaborated. Ironically, we, their relatives with some means, could inadvertently be to blame because, after getting their poor grades, we find ourselves financing their education at the next level (Good intentions of course and they dont have a sense of how much we are sacrificing). This has all been made worse by the mushrooming of all sorts of schools and 'universities', who admit whoever has some money to pay with no regard to grades. Some so called universities in this country even admit students with no principle pass at A'Level. Isnt that even illegal? Take this: I was in a shortlisting panel yesterday and chanced to go through papers of an applicant who graduated from Busoga 'University', but looking at his A'level papers, he didnt even get a single principle pass!!, but he is a university graduate!! BUT, we can surely motivate these guys to aim high and learn from other regions how we can tackle the other factors. The ball is firmly in our courts! Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:17:11 -0700 From: calebal...@yahoo.com To: westnilenet@kym.net Subject: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 By the way folks, were is vol.1 issue 1. Any way , Tabua and Gili, I understand that students from our schools in West Nile are shy to be seen reading. The story goes further that when you are seen over cracking books guys will isolate you, laugh at you and claim that you are poor. Most of these chaps even claim that they have already booked rooms in a hall of residence and or a prominent hostel in MUK, KIU,MUST, Kyambogo, UCU, Nkumba, Nkozi and IUIU . they even claim that for them they are assured of going to campus as privately sponsored students. So every one in the school begin shunning so called 'book worms and those who would wish to work hard suddenly develop low self esteem. Talk of a tragic script. On the Other hand, schools in the Central and western region are competing to appear in the newspapers. Talk of the biblical allusion of to those who have more shall be added and those who do not have even the small will be taken. Talk of tragic flows, labour reserve, Kasamvu's, wars, Anyanya's, poverty and ya a collapse of a generation. The script is nauseating and I feel sick watching the tragedy. Good day. _ Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites. http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/products/events.aspx___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
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Alaka there is another version of the bibilical quotation you are referring to: Those who have will be given more and those who dont even the little they think they have will be taken away Good day -- Ruffino Ezama,mccj Comboni Missionaries P.O Box 3872 Kampala Uganda (+256 77 2 62 42 40) (+256 75 2 62 42 40) ruffino.ez...@gmail.com ezama.ruff...@gmail.com ruff...@cmpmail.com www.tualu.org ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
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Thank you Caleb for welcoming us to the forum. Hope it will make us remain in contact and informed of pertinent issues of common interest. Thank you and may God bless you all. Sam Andema University of British Columbia vancouver, Canada --- On Sun, 8/3/09, Caleb Alaka calebal...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Caleb Alaka calebal...@yahoo.com Subject: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Sunday, 8 March, 2009, 3:05 PM Dr. Modest Kayi, Zako Joyce Buatru, Titus Alicai and Samuel Andema welcome to the forum. ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way.. ___ ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
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Yes Alaka Greetings from Ombaci. I hope all is fine there. This morning I went to celebrate Mass at Ewadri (between Abi Farm and Oriajini). It was nice to wish women Happy Women's day. I asked these people at the end of Mass what (according to them) are causing poor results in schools these days. Out of six people who talked five were women. a) the first woman said this could be attributed too much liking for night dances, eating of marungi which makes their interests to be divided b) another said she heard on the radio that teachers are poorly paid and they dont teach. c) another blamed the UPE USE where children are not to be punsihed thesedays. Children misbehave, they dont respect teachers and even insult them d) one stated that today freedom is free. I dont know what she meant exactly. But she continued observing that they buy kersone for these children to study and they leave the lamps on while they have sneaked out. Some elderly people see these children out at odd times and no body cares about such a situation e) another woman said that they parents cant even offer some lunch for these children. What they could use for preparing food for them are instead sold in the market for cash which is not used for the children. f) the only man who spoke pointed out to the children, parents and teachers all on the wrong. I wish you a good sunday, happy women's day to our sisters -- Ruffino Ezama,mccj Comboni Missionaries P.O Box 3872 Kampala Uganda (+256 77 2 62 42 40) (+256 75 2 62 42 40) ruffino.ez...@gmail.com ezama.ruff...@gmail.com ruff...@cmpmail.com www.tualu.org ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
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Dear Fr. Rofino, Thank you very much for sharing with us your emperical discussion with the folks. In a way you were carrying out an ethnographic study on this important subject of the persistent decline of education in west Nile. It is one way of gaging peiople's perceptions on the problem. The approach you have adopted is very good to open people's. However, from a professional point of view i would like some one to really volunteer and help us in systematically documenting the performance in some selected number of both primary and secondary schools across WestNile for the last five or ten years to let people especially our leaders to realise the gravity of the problem of death of education in the region. Talking about the problem without basic facts and figure is making our people become complacent. Can you imagi i was told on phone from Arua this morning that in the whole of Arua district hardly 10 candidates passed in grade one in PLE in 2008. Surely what are the elite and leaders in westnile doing? What are we paying the people who sit in district education for? Why do we continue to pay the headmaster in these schools? What are the so called Board of Governors doing in these schools when the policy and law gives them a lot of powers? Surely, enough should be enough! Just as every liquid has its boiling point there must be a limit to our patience! I am sick and tired of our inaction! This is too much! Sam Andema University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada --- On Sun, 8/3/09, Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Sunday, 8 March, 2009, 4:19 PM Yes Alaka Greetings from Ombaci. I hope all is fine there. This morning I went to celebrate Mass at Ewadri (between Abi Farm and Oriajini). It was nice to wish women Happy Women's day. I asked these people at the end of Mass what (according to them) are causing poor results in schools these days. Out of six people who talked five were women. a) the first woman said this could be attributed too much liking for night dances, eating of marungi which makes their interests to be divided b) another said she heard on the radio that teachers are poorly paid and they dont teach. c) another blamed the UPE USE where children are not to be punsihed thesedays. Children misbehave, they dont respect teachers and even insult them d) one stated that today freedom is free. I dont know what she meant exactly. But she continued observing that they buy kersone for these children to study and they leave the lamps on while they have sneaked out. Some elderly people see these children out at odd times and no body cares about such a situation e) another woman said that they parents cant even offer some lunch for these children. What they could use for preparing food for them are instead sold in the market for cash which is not used for the children. f) the only man who spoke pointed out to the children, parents and teachers all on the wrong. I wish you a good sunday, happy women's day to our sisters -- Ruffino Ezama,mccj Comboni Missionaries P.O Box 3872 Kampala Uganda (+256 77 2 62 42 40) (+256 75 2 62 42 40) ruffino.ez...@gmail.com ezama.ruff...@gmail.com ruff...@cmpmail.com www.tualu.org ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___ ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
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Thanks Sam for your e mail. We are looking forward to that. You imagine Arua Hill Primary which used to prooduce 55 or 60 first graders in PLE. This time (2008) the whole of arua district coould not reach that. We are going to have those statistics at hand when we map out a way forward. God bless -- Ruffino Ezama,mccj Comboni Missionaries P.O Box 3872 Kampala Uganda (+256 77 2 62 42 40) (+256 75 2 62 42 40) ruffino.ez...@gmail.com ezama.ruff...@gmail.com ruff...@cmpmail.com www.tualu.org ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
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Thank you father, for the promise we definitel need that statistics to raise dust! I look forward to receiving the data. Thank you. Sam Andema University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada --- On Sun, 8/3/09, Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: andema...@yahoo.co.uk, A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Sunday, 8 March, 2009, 5:11 PM Thanks Sam for your e mail. We are looking forward to that. You imagine Arua Hill Primary which used to prooduce 55 or 60 first graders in PLE. This time (2008) the whole of arua district coould not reach that. We are going to have those statistics at hand when we map out a way forward. God bless -- Ruffino Ezama,mccj Comboni Missionaries P.O Box 3872 Kampala Uganda (+256 77 2 62 42 40) (+256 75 2 62 42 40) ruffino.ez...@gmail.com ezama.ruff...@gmail.com ruff...@cmpmail.com www.tualu.org ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
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Sam, I agree with you on issue of data. I believe I should be able to extract some data for three or four years for O and A level. I will ask our librarian to compile it for me and I will email it to the group by Tuesday this week. Let us keep the candle burning. Jimmy Adriko The New Vision. _ From: westnilenet-boun...@kym.net [mailto:westnilenet-boun...@kym.net] On Behalf Of samuel andema Sent: Sunday, March 08, 2009 4:50 PM To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile Subject: [!! SPAM] Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 Dear Fr. Rofino, Thank you very much for sharing with us your emperical discussion with the folks. In a way you were carrying out an ethnographic study on this important subject of the persistent decline of education in west Nile. It is one way of gaging peiople's perceptions on the problem. The approach you have adopted is very good to open people's. However, from a professional point of view i would like some one to really volunteer and help us in systematically documenting the performance in some selected number of both primary and secondary schools across WestNile for the last five or ten years to let people especially our leaders to realise the gravity of the problem of death of education in the region. Talking about the problem without basic facts and figure is making our people become complacent. Can you imagi i was told on phone from Arua this morning that in the whole of Arua district hardly 10 candidates passed in grade one in PLE in 2008. Surely what are the elite and leaders in westnile doing? What are we paying the people who sit in district education for? Why do we continue to pay the headmaster in these schools? What are the so called Board of Governors doing in these schools when the policy and law gives them a lot of powers? Surely, enough should be enough! Just as every liquid has its boiling point there must be a limit to our patience! I am sick and tired of our inaction! This is too much! Sam Andema University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada --- On Sun, 8/3/09, Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ruffino Ezama ruffino.ez...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Sunday, 8 March, 2009, 4:19 PM Yes Alaka Greetings from Ombaci. I hope all is fine there. This morning I went to celebrate Mass at Ewadri (between Abi Farm and Oriajini). It was nice to wish women Happy Women's day. I asked these people at the end of Mass what (according to them) are causing poor results in schools these days. Out of six people who talked five were women. a) the first woman said this could be attributed too much liking for night dances, eating of marungi which makes their interests to be divided b) another said she heard on the radio that teachers are poorly paid and they dont teach. c) another blamed the UPE USE where children are not to be punsihed thesedays. Children misbehave, they dont respect teachers and even insult them d) one stated that today freedom is free. I dont know what she meant exactly. But she continued observing that they buy kersone for these children to study and they leave the lamps on while they have sneaked out. Some elderly people see these children out at odd times and no body cares about such a situation e) another woman said that they parents cant even offer some lunch for these children. What they could use for preparing food for them are instead sold in the market for cash which is not used for the children. f) the only man who spoke pointed out to the children, parents and teachers all on the wrong. I wish you a good sunday, happy women's day to our sisters -- Ruffino Ezama,mccj Comboni Missionaries P.O Box 3872 Kampala Uganda (+256 77 2 62 42 40) (+256 75 2 62 42 40) ruffino.ez...@gmail.com ezama.ruff...@gmail.com ruff...@cmpmail.com www.tualu.org http://www.tualu.org/ ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___ o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o~o DISCLAIMER THE INFORMATION CONTAINED IN THIS COMMUNICATION IS CONFIDENTIAL AND MAY BE LEGALLY PRIVILEGED.IT IS INTENDED SOLELY FOR USE OF THE INDIVIDUAL OR ENTITY TO WHOM IT IS ADDRESSED AND OTHERS AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE IT. IF YOU ARE NOT THE INTENDED RECIPIENT YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT ANY DISCLOSURE, COPYING, DISTRIBUTION OR TAKING ACTION IN RELIANCE OF THE CONTENTS OF THIS INFORMATION IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED AND MAY BE UNLAWFUL . NEW VISION
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Yes Patrick Thanks for your quick note. I fully concur with the idea of having someone do a thesis on that. We shall our the educationists (dr Odama, Dr Ayikoru, Simon anguma's etc) to look into that Looking forward to meeting you on the reuinion day. -- Ruffino Ezama,mccj Comboni Missionaries P.O Box 3872 Kampala Uganda (+256 77 2 62 42 40) (+256 75 2 62 42 40) ruffino.ez...@gmail.com ezama.ruff...@gmail.com ruff...@cmpmail.com www.tualu.org ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
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Dear Colleagues It is very good that we are converging around an issue that touches at the very heart of the pertinent issues for West Nile. The initiative is quite commendable, and I salute the initiators led by Fr. Ruffino. Let us work together to nurture it into fruition. Regards Patrick Okuni --- On Fri, 6/3/09, Modest Kayi modak...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Modest Kayi modak...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Date: Friday, 6 March, 2009, 10:34 PM My dear people of West Nile, many greetings and best wishes. I congratulate Ruffino Ezama for accepting to take-on the challenge and leadership in this new Task Force to discuss and find good solutions to our formal education and other crises. I like the idea of Alaka and Jesca Bako Anguyo of respecting gender balance and other cultural identies in our teamwork. We must solve the formal education crisis in West Nile as Westnileans (sorry for this usage if it offends any of us). Strangers and those who pretend to be Westnileans have milked us enough. Let us turn towards ourselves, our people and home in order to curve the West Nile of our rational choice and beauty. YES! TOGETHER WE CAN. Let me be counted among the many rational, caring, just and committed WESTNILEAN BARACK OBAMAS! LET US SAVE WESTNILE FROM TOTAL COLLAPSE AND DOOM! DR. O'DAMA KAYI OYEE DRILEMGBO MODEST From: Jesca Anguyo jesca...@yahoo.com To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Sent: Friday, March 6, 2009 2:00:58 PM Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 Dear team, This is an amazing step forward for the people of West Nile , something they can call their own, Iam sure it will go along way in contributing to the development process in West Nile at beyond. I stongly agree that the task force be gender sensitive and to ensure task force members are being drawn from diverse backgrounds. Thanks for the idea and for sharing this. Jesca Jesca Bako Anguyo From: Caleb Alaka calebal...@yahoo.com To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile westnilenet@kym.net Sent: Friday, March 6, 2009 9:24:44 AM Subject: [WestNileNet] WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 Brothers and Sisters, The Idea of having a radio program is absolutely welcome. Congratulations Father Ruffino. I suggest that the flow of ideas on this contentious matter of our very existence and survival as a region should continue despite the Task Force. I have opined that we need 7 members of the task force and our Head teachers should be ex-officios. Ezaga suggested that I, Alaka, and Andua be on the task force. We have to be gender sensitive. Probably the structure of this task force would be some thing like a Chairperson which position by consensus has been given to Father Ruffino, then a vice chairperson, and some 5 members. Gentlemen and ladies can we get a consensus on the membership of this task force such that they kick start there work. -Inline Attachment Follows- ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___ ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet % WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
