{"id":3910,"date":"2016-09-27T15:28:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=3910"},"modified":"2016-09-27T15:28:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T15:28:29","slug":"the-new-school-year-starting-with-post-fundamental-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/the-new-school-year-starting-with-post-fundamental-system\/","title":{"rendered":"The new School year starting with Post-Fundamental System"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 26 September, all public schools including primary and secondary schools started the new school year 2016-2017 with the first candidates of the \u201cFundamental School\u201d system. There are some innovations despite challenges.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"People

People lining up in queue at the beginning of the school year 2016-2017<\/p><\/div>\n

Queues of people were formed in front of the offices of secondary schools\u2019 headmasters. Parents, pupils and teachers were present. \u201cI am seeking a place for my daughter in a boarding school\u201d, said a woman met at Lyc\u00e9e Ngagara. She said her kid was orientated far from her house and complained that transportation fees are a big challenge for her family as she is poor. \u201cHow on earth shall I cover her needs as I am jobless? I really want my daughter to study at this school! \u00bb she said.<\/p>\n

Tharcisse Bendantokira, the headmaster of Lyc\u00e9e of Ngagara, one of the newly created schools of excellence, indicated that some challenges were faced as it was the first day of the new school year. \u201cWe now have one bed room for 15 girls from school of excellence, which was not there before\u201d, explained Bendantokira. Thirty pupils including 15 girls and 15 boys from four provinces (Bujumbura City, Bujumbura province, Cibitoke and Bubanza Provinces) have begun the 7th grade of the school excellence.<\/p>\n

The headmaster indicated that the lack of mattresses is still observed. \u201c500 students out of 900 learning in that school are boarders and yet, we have not had new mattresses for over four years. Only 30 pupils of 7th form got the new mattresses\u201d, he stated.<\/p>\n

In addition, schools haven\u2019t yet received enough teachers, textbook etc. \u201cWe are still waiting for school materials. The institute in charge of distributing educational equipment can bring them at any moment,\u201d he hoped.<\/p>\n

For subsidies, Bendantokira noted that the school is trying to do its best. \u201cWe have already incurred debts towards suppliers to feed pupils given that the Burundian Government granted only BIF 800 by one pupil per day, which is not sufficient for them at all,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Similar challenges were also noticed at Lyc\u00e9e du Lac Tanganyika. Parents and pupils were still looking for the school regulations, files, wanted to buy school uniforms, pay school fees… \u201cA few challenges were met on the first day of the new school year. We have 2500 places but we fear having a huge number of pupils because the orientation process is ongoing\u201d, said Aloys Nimbona, the headmaster of Lyc\u00e9e du Lac Tanganyika. He also indicated that the lack of school materials is a reality. \u201cWe hope to get the school equipment for the new pupils enrolled here very soon\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n

The new school year began with some innovations including the addition of educational, human sciences, language and economic sections to the arts, scientific and economic sections that were already existing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 26 September, all public schools including primary and secondary schools started the new school year 2016-2017 with the first candidates of the \u201cFundamental School\u201d system. There are some innovations despite challenges. Queues of people were formed in front of the offices of secondary schools\u2019 headmasters. Parents, pupils and teachers were present. \u201cI am seeking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,670],"tags":[759,805],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3913,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions\/3913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}