Primary And Secondary Education
We need to address issues like access to resources, teacher professional development and ageing classrooms to get the full benefit of STEM education in primary schools. Teaching is an academically rigorous profession and teachers play a critical role in our communities. Improving the learning outcomes at the primary level is contingent upon having a sound pre-primary education system to track and improve the learning trajectory of the children who are enrolled at the primary schools. This will require broadening and deepening reforms to reach the millions of children who are currently out of school. At the primary education level some 5 million children are not enrolled in schools of which 19 percent and 31 percent are boys and girls respectively. Community A child is expected to commence at the age of 6 or 7 and continue for 7years. The role of federal Ministry of Education is now reduced to assisting provinces with curriculum development, accreditation and R & D. We successfu