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 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 > > -----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). 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