While at first glance, there is an alluring temptation to get carried away and simply applaud the meteoric leaps in learning outcomes, it is equally almost impossible to ignore the unmistakable political correctness framing and delusions about the return of quality education because of the FQSE that characterise this year’s announcement and indeed many similar education data releases by the minister.
This note of optimism was perhaps driven by instinctive necessity, considering that my concerns and pessimism with the FQSE would be impossible to prove and might forever be — at least for the five- or ten-year tenure of the Bio administration.
The major highlights of this year’s results were that two candidates, Skaikay Nasma and Kallon Khadijah, from relatively unknown schools in Kenema, respectively, took the first and second positions.
the number of candidates achieving direct university degree programme entry requirements by obtaining five credits including in English Language and/or Mathematics in a single sitting has increased by an amazing 1,781% since 2018in 2022, more than 108,000 students, or 58% of candidates, obtained university requirementshigher than the combined number of candidates who had obtained requirements in the previous five years63% of candidates passed English Language, while 90% passed Mathematics,Truly...
It is also very difficult to attribute these changes to specific policy redesign, performance trends, or direct technical and/or financial inputs into the education sector.
How also do these high pass rates – possibly the highest in the country’s WASSCE history – not conflict with the fact that the absence of qualified teachers is highest at the Senior Secondary School level in Sierra Leone? The 2021 National School Census, which the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education recently launched, revealed that nearly 60% of teachers in Senior Secondary Schools areto teach at that level. This is the highest prevalence of unqualified teachers across all levels.
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