{"id":11118,"date":"2018-12-26T15:39:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T15:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=11118"},"modified":"2018-12-28T07:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T07:44:39","slug":"education-ministry-worried-about-high-school-dropouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/education-ministry-worried-about-high-school-dropouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Education ministry worried about high school dropouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 280.600 cases of dropouts are recorded at the national level during the 2017-2018 school year. The ministry of education is concerned about the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9416\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9416\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9416\" src=\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Juma-Edouard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Juma-Edouard.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Juma-Edouard-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Juma-Edouard-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Juma-Edouard-600x345.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edouard Juma: The main causes of school dropouts are early pregnancies and poverty.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Juma Edouard, spokesperson for the ministry of education, says the ministry has run a campaign to sensitize people to two phenomena that threaten the education sector in Burundi. \u201cFrom 19 to 22 December, the ministry conducted a campaign dedicated to raising awareness of school dropout impact and pregnancies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He says the campaign mainly focused on dialogues to discuss the main causes and how they should be addressed. \u201cWe discussed the causes and strategies to address them,\u201d Mr. Juma says.<\/p>\n<p>Jeanne Ihorihoze, Director General of basic and post basic education, says everyone should be involved. \u201cFighting against school dropouts and pregnancies is not a task reserved to educators only. Everyone\u2019s contribution is necessary,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>She calls on parents, decision-makers and the administration to get involved in the fight against school dropouts and pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Ihorihoze says the ministry has adopted a strategy to recruit counselors so as to avoid school dropouts. \u201cThey are called aunts and fathers whose role will be to listen to students and provide them with advice\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Out of 2,883,671 students that were registered in basic and post basic schools in the whole country, 280,605 abandoned schools, i.e. 9, 7%. Kirundo province is the first province with a high school dropout rate followed by Makamba and Muyinga provinces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 280.600 cases of dropouts are recorded at the national level during the 2017-2018 school year. The ministry of education is concerned about the phenomenon. Juma Edouard, spokesperson for the ministry of education, says the ministry has run a campaign to sensitize people to two phenomena that threaten the education sector in Burundi. \u201cFrom 19 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,670],"tags":[113,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11118"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11121,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11118\/revisions\/11121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}