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Teaching was in his blood stream and it could not have been an easy call to decide to sever ties with one’s 30-year-old passion and love.Leaving five years shy of the mandatory retirement age, caught by surprise many of his colleagues and well...

This is why there could be some justification as to why any discourse surrounding the performance of a school centres around the work of classroom practitioners and school principals.When it comes to accounting for learning outcomes, to the subject...

From July 2018 to the first quarter of 2019, my team and I had the experience of travelling extensively on a challenging but rewarding experiment of pushing a quick and dramatic solution to the problem of academic underachievement. At the end of the...

While there are many pockets of the world where access to education requires serious attention, issues of quality and relevance are cross cutting. This is the more reason why the world governing body - the United Nations has in its 17 Sustainable...

It is also an established fact that a school thriving on the broad shoulders of strong leaders runs the risk of losing its spark. A tragedy often strikes upon the departure of the services of leaders who the Greek philosopher Plato might describe as...

But the reality on the ground is that one of the major problems bedeviling the education environment and effectively rendering the system impotent is institutional complacency.Institutional complacency is a condition which occurs when employees no...

Some are expected day-to-day challenges, which are largely falling within the teacher’s sphere of influence while others, could be major, unprecedented and unanticipated emergencies, which, predominantly fall outside the teacher’s jurisdiction....

Presumably, everyone should be returning to work equipped with a razor sharp mind, having had sufficient respite to replenish energy supplies.Typical of a new year, the mood is extremely high and reassuring. Almost everyone is prepared to let bygones...

It was not just about provoking debates for their own sake but to build a sustained culture of academic excellence while inculcating a love for the teaching profession, especially in the minds of the novice teacher and to inspire hope among those who...

Like a war weary army upon learning of a declaration of a ceasefire, everyone wants to scuttle out of the scene as soon as possible. Depending on the culture of a school, there are standard and distinct protocols associated with closure of...

She was hardly two-years-old at the helm of a senior secondary school, having plied her trade at junior secondary for almost all her professional life. But I quickly exercised restraint after I did some quick mathematical calculations and discovered...

The two diametrically opposed worlds were clearly incompatible on many fronts. More often than not, in this encounter, western culture outfoxed and outmanoeuvred African traditions. It is ironic, however, that in a school classroom arena ,western...

Coming from a colonial background of limited or no access to education, where an overwhelming number of children were callously shut out of schools, it was therefore, a legitimate call for the new African governments to place a high premium on access...

Our schools have a notorious distinction of failing students and pushing them to swell the ranks of the unemployed rather than helping students to achieve and improve their livelihoods. Schools are linked with the notorious distinction for failing...

Accorded space and respect, every organ of the system can play its role in redressing the worrying achievement gaps and moving the system much closer towards the desired goal of raising student learning outcomes and elimination of a culture of...