Officials of the Ministry of
Basic and Secondary Education (MoBSE) communication unit have visited six
senior secondary schools within regions one and two.
Head of the communication
unit, Emily Gomez said the visit was to formally introduce the officials to the
schools and to forge partnership with them. She said it is also meant to inform
the school administrators about the mandate of the unit within MoBSE.
Mrs. Gomez informed the
visited school administrators and their students about the existence of “The
Gambia Education TV” and the introduction of MoBSE Newsletter called: “MoBSE
Mirror.”
“This partnership will
showcase your school programs and activities through the TV and the Newsletter
of what you are doing in your schools so that the general public will be aware
of it,” Mrs. Gomez informed school heads and students.
She emphasized that the TV
will purely broadcast issues pertaining to education, adding that good things
are happening in schools but yet the general public is not aware of those
happenings.
The print media editor at
MoBSE Communication Unit, Baba S. Touray informed the school administrators and
students that the unit wants the schools to take ownership of MoBSE mediums.
“Already the communication
unit has partnered with some media institutions in the country namely QTV,
Paradise TV and GRTS, and we want to create a platform that would give students
the platform to showcase their academic talent,” he explained.
The broadcast producers at
the communication unit, Tala Camara and Saidou Jallow said the aim of the unit
is to build healthy partnership with schools for the public to know what is
happening.
They suggested that student
programs need to be exposed to the general public and encouraged various clubs
in their schools to be part of the great opportunity.
Head-boy of Nusrat senior
secondary school, Alieu Jobe, Aboubakar Touray and Sira Jatta suggested the way
MoBSE TV and Newsletter should be run.
Ms. Camara and Jallow said
the culture of writing is dying in schools, but with the coming up of the TV
and the Newsletter, students writing skills will be revised.
Principals and other
authorities of the visited schools described the introduction of “The Gambia
Education TV” and the Newsletter as timely, assuring that their students will
be contributing to the publication in form of poems, poetries, feature articles
and stories
