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Learning is a process

However, stubborn it may appear, the culture of academic underachievement in schools can go and become a phenomenon of the past. All that is required is for all critical parties concerned to begin to accept the reality that the ritual of rehearsing old and discredited approaches is not helping the cause of raising student learning outcomes.

There is need for all responsible for the school systems beginning with the central ministry to the classroom practitioner to accept the stark reality, without any sense of embarrassment, that the system is failing students.

The system should boldly accept that efforts made have hitherto succeeded in tinkering at the edges and not addressing adequately real issues inhibiting provision of quality education. There is therefore a compelling need to chart a new course and usher the system into some un-chartered territory.

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Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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