{"id":4151,"date":"2016-10-26T09:29:13","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T09:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/?p=4151"},"modified":"2016-10-26T09:29:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T09:29:13","slug":"acute-shortage-of-textbooks-in-post-fundamental-school-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/acute-shortage-of-textbooks-in-post-fundamental-school-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Acute shortage of textbooks in post-fundamental school system"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since one month that the post-basic school system has begun, some challenges are still there like the lack of sufficient textbooks and large classes. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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post-fundamental school<\/p><\/div>\n

At \u201cLyc\u00e9e Municipal de Musaga\u201d, in southern Bujumbura the capital, two sections compose the post-basic school, i.e. languages and sciences. Each section has about 200 students dispatched to two classrooms where three students sit on one bench. \u201cWe are aware of the high number of pupils and we don\u2019t have any other choice\u201d, says Th\u00e9ogene Nzeyimana, the headmaster of the \u201cLyc\u00e9e Municipal de Musaga\u201d.<\/p>\n

Concerning the textbooks, there is a serious problem. \u201cWe still face a severe shortage of books at school. Even if we photocopied some textbooks, learners must sit together to use the few books we have,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

The same view is shared by Jacqueline Ndimurukundo, headmaster of \u201cLyc\u00e9e Municipal de Bwiza\u201d, in Mukaza central commune of Bujumbura the capital. \u201cGraders of post-fundamental system do not have any textbooks. Teachers are obliged to write on the blackboards,\u201d she says. There are three sections of sciences, social sciences and languages but students of social sciences do not have any textbooks. \u201cThey haven\u2019t yet learned courses of information, communication technologies (ICT) and French due to the lack of textbooks. We are trying to do our best to make copies but we don\u2019t think that we will succeed\u201d, she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cLack of means \u2026 lack of textbooks\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

Emmanuel Mashandari, the chairman of the teachers\u2019 union \u2013CONAPES, says the government tried to distribute the textbooks to different schools but they are still insufficient. \u201cTeachers need to have their own reference books\u201d, he says. This is an uncomfortable situation and there are very few ICT textbooks in various schools. \u201cThe latter are very expensive given that different schools don\u2019t have laptops. During the ICT class, teachers need to have enough teaching materials so that pupils learn various part of a computer machine. From now on, students need more practice than theory\u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

Beside this lack of textbooks, Mashandari indicates that teachers are not also qualified to teach such courses. \u201cAll teachers of post-fundamental school system did not receive any training before teaching the courses\u201d.<\/p>\n

Juma Edouard, spokesperson of the Ministry of education says the Ministry is aware that there are serious challenges but there isn\u2019t any immediate solution. \u201cThere are no funds allocated to the purchase of books in 2016 annual budget. We must wait until next year budget after we have known the exact number of students so as to plan the number of textbooks accordingly \u201d, he says.<\/p>\n

Juma says the Ministry is developing a national policy to tackle all the issues related to education in support of the latter.<\/p>\n

The government set up the new system of basic school in 2013. It included early primary and basic education, teaching crafts and literacy. The basic education will extend up to nine years. The post fundamental school system receives students who have completed the basic education. It provides general education, educational, technical and professional training. It aims to train middle managers and skilled workers to meet the need of the country. It also prepares candidates to universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since one month that the post-basic school system has begun, some challenges are still there like the lack of sufficient textbooks and large classes. At \u201cLyc\u00e9e Municipal de Musaga\u201d, in southern Bujumbura the capital, two sections compose the post-basic school, i.e. languages and sciences. Each section has about 200 students dispatched to two classrooms where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,670],"tags":[1183,853],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151"}],"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=4151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4151\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}