Govt has no plan to curb classroom shortage?

Thursday, January 23, 2014

In our Wednesday edition we carried a story about the shortage of classrooms at Borolong Primary School in the North District Council. While, there are many other similar situations across the country, what becomes our source of concern is when the Ministry of Education bluntly states that it has no plans whatsoever to remedy the anomaly in the near future.

We do appreciate the constraints that the government is facing in delivering resources to each and every place where such are required. We also understand that the global economy went through a recession, which did not spare our country.

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