We are almost at the end of our journey. Project is
completed and the final presentation is tomorrow.
We visited 17 schools where we did interviews with
principals, teachers and students. Even though we were able to interact with
most of them, the level of English was very poor.
We had also meetings with the district representative and students’
parents, which helped a lot to understand the dimension of the problem in
education.
In the meeting with the district representative, it became
clear that we wouldn’t get any support. Apparently, only the government has the
ability to make any improvements (hard to believe…)
Meeting the parents was also not the highlight of our
project. They understand the importance of learning but cannot afford to send
their children to secondary schools (marriage also seems to be the priority).
After all research done, we divided the schools into 3
clusters: schools that stand out, schools interested in improving English
language and schools not interested/ready to start the program.
We came up with almost 40 recommendations and selected two
pilot schools where the project will be implemented first. Each have a specific
program which includes recommendations for improving the English level of
students and teachers, new methods and tools for learning English and earlier
exposure to English within schools.
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