10-03-2019 ■ At a press briefing held on this October 2nd, Edouard Juma, Spokesman for the Ministry of Education, Technical and Vocational Training has said there have been discrepancies in the lists of the basic school teachers of the first year class who attended the trainings from August 26 to September (...)

09-26-2019 ■ Mugara II Basic School of Rumonge province in the south of Burundi faces severe lack of school equipment. Classrooms of the1st and 2nd grades do not have writing desks. Schoolchildren sit on the stones or on the ground covered with dust when studying while in other classrooms, four pupils (...)

09-19-2019 ■ At a workshop on access to inclusive education for people living with disabilities, these latter say they are faced with social and school discrimination along with lack of materials and infrastructures in Burundi. “We are sometimes frightened to death because of our skin color,” says Moise Nkengurutse, Chairman of (...)

09-17-2019 ■ “I no longer feel pain on my buttocks,” says Nabot, a pupil of Grade 4, at Gasenyi II Basic School, in the north of the economic capital Bujumbura, after his class received some school desks. “Now that I’m sitting on a desk, I feel good,” says Yvan, another schoolboy (...)

09-13-2019 ■ At Gasenyi II Basic School located in Gihosha zone of Ntahangwa commune in the north of Bujumbura, pupils in many classes sit on the floor while studying. Six classrooms at Gasenyi II Basic School have no single desk. Some others have very few desks compared to the high number (...)

09-12-2019 ■ This September 11th, the spokesman for the Ministry of Education, Technical and Vocational Training has said the basic school young learners may experience linguistic interference as they learn four languages at the same time. “Teaching four languages at the same time in the first years of basic school may (...)

08-19-2019 ■ A school principal in Bubanza province decided that 10 students who just graduated won’t be awarded with diplomas. He accuses them of having torn apart their uniforms and behaved badly at the end of the state exam. The decision has sparked a lot of reactions. An audio has been (...)

08-16-2019 ■ At a press conference held on August 16th, the Burundian Minister of Education has said the results of the national test 2019 edition are generally bad. “Only 14% of candidates who took the national test have got at least 50%, i.e. 100 out of 200,” says Janvière Ndirahisha, Burundian (...)

08-02-2019 ■ More than 90 thousand students are expected to do the national test edition 2019 that will start on Tuesday 6 August. Students and their teachers from various high school institutions in Burundi continue to prepare for the state exam. On 1 August, at Rohero Municipal High School located in (...)

05-15-2019 ■ Former students of Dama high school in the southern Rumonge province who completed high school in 2017 staged a sit-in on May 14 in front of the school’s management office. They ask to be given their diplomas. They want to know the reasons that prevent them from getting their (...)