{"id":46,"date":"2013-08-03T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T09:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/blogs\/english\/?p=46"},"modified":"2013-08-03T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T09:30:07","slug":"education-24-schools-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/education-24-schools-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Education: 24 schools closed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ministry in Charge of Primary and Secondary Education has decided to close some schools temporarily and definitively because they don\u2019t respond to Burundi education requirements-<\/strong> by <\/em>Diane Uwimana<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Ntahangwa<\/a>

Ntahangwa Lycee, one of the schools in a very critical situation.\u00a9Iwacu<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThere are some Primary Schools whose pupils have never succeeded in the National test since three or four years and other primary and secondary schools have closed their doors without even informing the ministry authority\u201d, explains Rose Gahiru, Minister of Primary and Secondary Education.<\/p>\n

She mentions that the ministry hasn\u2019t only looked into to the lack of infrastructure and didactic equipment; but it has also analysed the salubrious and hygienic conditions of those schools. \u201cThe worst situation is a case of secondary school Pax Caritas at Gitega Province which holds only one water closed (W.C) shared by all female and male pupils, teachers or administration staff\u201d, regrets the minister.<\/p>\n

Rose Gahiru underlines that the measures have been taken referring to different ordinances regulating the organization of schools in Burundi
\nAccording to the ministerial ordinance signed this 22nd July 2013, pupils who studied in those schools are recommended to be registered next year in other better private schools following their former section.<\/p>\n

“Unjust measure\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tembo Leonard, the Headmaster of a primary level at Ntahangwa Lycee judges the measure as unjust. \u201cDifferent educational visits have been paid inside our school but there wasn\u2019t any written warning to us\u201d, deplores the Headmaster. He says that they have got only a verbal warning about infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Ntahangwa Lycee is located at Buyenzi quarter in Bujumbura City Council, 1st avenue, along the \u201cBoulevard du peuple Murundi\u201d. It is between Star hotel and Ntahangwa River. Inside the playground, there are fields of potatoes and the school is under some trees where bats dwell. Today, it is in a very critical situation, there are neither doors nor windows of the classrooms.<\/p>\n

According to him, the government must help them ameliorate the situation. \u201cWe have done our best and looked for infrastructure, so the government should help us to improve pupils\u2019 knowledge\u201d, says Tembo.
\nJoseph Ndayisaba, an Educational Expert, praises the measure taken by the Ministry.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is also necessary to apply the same measure to Universities which do not fulfil educational norms such as healthy infrastructures and appropriate equipment\u201d, he concludes.<\/p>\n

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The closed schools are the following:<\/p>\n

1. \u00ab Le cycle Primaire du complexe Scolaire International
\n2. Le cycle Primaire du Lyc\u00e9e Technique Bukirasazi
\n3. Le cycle Primaire de l\u2019Ecole du Savoir
\n4. Le cycle Primaire du Groupe Scolaire Saint Jacques
\n5. Le cycle Primaire de l\u2019Ecole Charit\u00e9 Mirango
\n6. Le cycle Coll\u00e8ge du Complexe Scolaire Shaloom
\n7. L\u2019Ecole de la Victoire
\n8. Le lyc\u00e9e Ntahangwa
\n9. L\u2019Ecole Bon Pasteur de Rumonge
\n10. Le cycle Primaire du Lyc\u00e9e Ntahangwa
\n11. La section Informatique de Gestion de l\u2019Ecole de F\u00e9lins
\n12. Le cycle Primaire du Complexe Scolaire Saint Placide
\n13. Le cycle Primaire de l\u2019\u00e9cole Charit\u00e9 Songa
\n14. Le coll\u00e8ge Pax Caritas (Gitega)
\n15. Le cycle Coll\u00e8ge de l\u2019Ecole Primaire et Secondaire de la Charit\u00e9 Songa
\n16. L\u2019Ecole Amie du Livre (Gitega)
\n17. La section Informatique de Gestion du Coll\u00e8ge Etoile du Matin
\n18. Le cycle Primaire du Centre Scolaire Tanzanien
\n19. Le cycle Primaire de l\u2019Ecole Carmel
\n20. L\u2019Ecole de la Concorde de Gatumba
\n21. Le Complexe Scolaire Saint Jacques
\n22. Le Lyc\u00e9e Le Soleil de Minago (Rumonge)
\n23. Le cycle Coll\u00e8ge du Complexe Scolaire R\u00eave d\u2019Avenir
\n24. L\u2019Ecole Primaire de Bukirasazi \u00bb<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ministry in Charge of Primary and Secondary Education has decided to close some schools temporarily and definitively because they don\u2019t respond to Burundi education requirements- by Diane Uwimana \u201cThere are some Primary Schools whose pupils have never succeeded in the National test since three or four years and other primary and secondary schools have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[108,501],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}