*Ladies and gentlemen, I salute you all** Good Beginning* The experiment Fr Ruffino conducted after his mass at Ewadri clearly indicates that the ordinary villagers some of whom cannot even read and write understand the gravity of the situation in the schools & performance problems. I would like to encourage a broader participation of the community.
The more we listen to people talk about the problems, the more we shall learn about the root causes of the problems. We can analyze the problems from the groups: We could break up attendees into small group discussion. Compile the opinion from different groups a) Student problems b) Teachers problems c) Parents Problems d) Leadership problems e) Education Office & Ministry of Education Problems f) Local government problems The idea of detailed academic research is good but the time we have seems to be too short. This could be done as a follow up. We shall get better participation as people are aware of the problem at hand. *Problem Solving* After the hearings and knowing more about the problems, we can go to the drawing board. Look at the CAUSE <> EFFECT Relationships Come with Policies & Procedures to fix the sickness/Illness. On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:17 PM, <westnilenet-requ...@kym.net> wrote: > Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to > westnilenet@kym.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > westnilenet-requ...@kym.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at > westnilenet-ow...@kym.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Re: Poor education Performance (Gilbert Adibo) > 2. St Josephs day 21/03/2009 (Caleb Alaka) > 3. the Father Ruffino Westnile Educational Task force (Caleb Alaka) > 4. WestNile Digest, Vol 6, issue 72 (Caleb Alaka) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 18:55:24 +0400 > From: Gilbert Adibo <adibo2...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] Re: Poor education Performance > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> > Message-ID: > <3144a0e40903090755k575e45c2k49306e3193bbc...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" > > Listen members, good ideas are not adopted automatically, but driven into > practice with courageous patience and determination. Now, get moving!! > > Gil > > > On 09/03/2009, embati richard <embatirich...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > 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 of poor performance. > > “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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20090309/d5a2f801/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:27:25 -0700 (PDT) > From: Caleb Alaka <calebal...@yahoo.com> > Subject: [WestNileNet] St Josephs day 21/03/2009 > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> > Message-ID: <966891.47313...@web46409.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Colleagues, when I got a personal invitation from the Chairman SJCOBA , the > Erudite Eng. Okuni for the Oscars and more so when he graciously offered me > a special guest status, I felt humbled and appreciative. I even suggested to > get time to be in Arua for St Josephs day on the 21/03/2009. God willing I > will be there. The point is probably non of our followers and younger > ones in all the West Nile schools imagine that some of us went through the > same institutions as they are now in. Over the weekend I wanted Eng. Obetia > to explain to me the Chemical formula of mixing paraffin with diesel in a > hurricane lamp. Eng. what is such a mixture referred to. Well this is what > we used during our times. I remember we had no Electricity, bore holes > e.t..c in Mvara but we did produce the Adibo's, Acidri's Ejiku's, Ayibo's, > Dr. Richard, Dr. Aritua, Alia Valary's, Eng.Ezati's, Jimmy Adriko's, > Stevo's, several medical doctors, educationists, the Alaka's e.t.c. > Probably the current Ombaci students may not even know that the Andema's, > butagira's Draecabo's, Andua Drani's ,Okuni's , Obetia's, Ezaga's, Ngaka's, > Idoru's, Matenga's, Eyoki's, Ori's and Azabo's and other notable Ob's were > at one time like them. When Azabo talks of self belief, I believe this > should be one of the first prescriptions we should administer on these > students. Let them know that we were just like them and the difference is > that we believed as Obama did that yes we could and they should get the same > mentality. Hope all SJOBA members and well-wishers should turn up en mass. > This is How SMACK o.B's Psyche up the students. next time a list of who is > who amongst all Ob's and og's should be compiled and sent to these schools > to Psyche these souls up. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20090309/a4c2aa16/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 12:52:48 -0700 (PDT) > From: Caleb Alaka <calebal...@yahoo.com> > Subject: [WestNileNet] the Father Ruffino Westnile Educational Task > force > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile <westnilenet@kym.net> > Message-ID: <179401.63304...@web46406.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Father, > > Thanks for the experiment at Ewadri, all the respondents you informally > interviewed gave a correct clue. One can simply summarize the findings as > lack of discipline amongst the current crop of students, poor attitude > towards education and infrastructural and institutional bottlenecks. Adibo > Gilbert in my view rightly added some other factors like wanting educational > facilities to wit, outdated books, insufficient teaching materials and > attitude. Embati's prescription was a multi-prong approach. what does all > this mean. As Mundua, Azabo, Okuni and Andema have suggested, lets come up > with the terms of reference for this task force and its membership thanks > that Andua is now a confirmed member. As I opined earlier, the task force > should be gender sensitive. The sooner we do this the better. This way, we > can now look at the basic facts, the raison detre of the plummeting > performance in our schools, other point of view of the different stake > holders and > the way forward. Upon getting a draft report and recommendations, we can > now convene a major conference like "Kacok Madit" in Kampala and Arua to > debate the report, adopt the same and probably come up with a frame work of > implementing the same. Oyulu Patrick why are you quite. By the way this is > one of the Prominent Ob's of Mvara together with Tom Buruku whom I should > have mentioned in my not conclusive List. We also need a time frame for > this task force. I am also willing to be a member of the task force if > members have no objections. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://orion.kym.net/pipermail/westnilenet/attachments/20090309/31e4c7f4/attachment-0001.html > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 13:17:11 -0700 (PDT) > 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> > Message-ID: <8013.71579...@web46405.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > 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. 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