National
Assembly member for Kiang East and chairman of the National Assembly select
committee on Education, Training and ITC said the situation of education in the
country is not impressive.
Speaking
to journalists in Gunjur last Friday during the official closing of a five-day
tour to schools by the select committee on education, Yaya Cassama said the
tour has given them the opportunity to see what is happening on the ground,
saying they have seen serious challenges ranging from lack of facilities in
schools which is not encouraging.
“We have also got the information that the
payment of School Improvement Grant (SIG) for last year is still pending talk
less of this year’s.”
Sainey
Tourary, member for Jarra East and also a member of the select committee said
they got lot of information regarding the management of those schools and that
would help them in their work as a committee.
Alhaji
S Darboe, member for Brikama North said the purpose of the tour is for them to
gather information regarding educational situation to in each of the schools and
the schools that they visited were able to gather relevant information that
they feel are very important to share with the ministry of Basic and Secondary
Education.
Kajali
Fofana, member for Jarra West said, “We have accomplished our mission and we
have gathered a lot of information from different schools that we have
visited.”
