Teachers face action for poor results

Arusha. At least 40 Jangwani Girls Secondary School teachers in Dar es Salaam have been booked for disciplinary action following the school’s poor performance in national examinations.

The school, one of the oldest in the country, was among the bottom 10 in the Form VI National Examinations results for 2018, which were released recently.

Announcing this here when addressing school inspectors from Arusha and Manyara regions, the deputy minister for Education, Science and Technology, Mr William Ole Nasha, said the ministry has been dismayed by this year’s performance in national examinations, including the famous Jangwani. He added that from now on the ministry will change the way school inspections are carried out, disclosing that ‘surprise visits”, which often take school managements unawares, will no longer be used, stressing it will be participatory. The new system, he explained, is aimed to ensure the school managements are given chances to explain the way they want challenges facing their institutions be tackled instead of being intimidated.

Mr Ole Nasha added that the government was committed to improve the quality of education and that this would be done through quality control measures, which include enforcing the best practices in school inspections.

“We will act against school inspectors who fail to perform their duties well,” he told the school inspectors, noting that this year, the government has allocated Sh1 trillion for the ministry’s expenditure budget.

He noted, however, that gaps in the school inspections lay with the way the institutions are managed, adding that was where the focus of the remedial measures to improve the quality would be directed.

The quality assurance official with the ministry, Ms Augusta Lupokela, said the new system in improving learning in schools would focus on the way the core lessons are taught and how they are receptive to the students.

“We will also take into consideration the views of other stakeholders in education,” he told the meeting held at the Arusha Technical College (ATC).

Dr Masoud Senzie, the acting rector of ATC, argued that quality assurance should begin at the admission stage.

, especially at the colleges, to ensure that only those who are qualified are admitted to the learning institutions.