The EDUSA Week is a week-long event that brings students and stakeholders from different walks of life to elaborate on areas of great benefit to students.
This year's theme was "promoting teachers’ capacity for national development.'
Addressing the gathering, Ismaila Ceesay, president of The Gambia Teacher’s Union dwelled on the importance of The Gambia Teachers Union, which he said, advocates for the right and welfare of Teachers.
"The Union helps in educating the educators and participating in the overall development monitoring and evaluating all necessary processes as matters related to Teachers welfare and development and rights."
The Union, he added, also provides a platform for the Teachers to be trained as qualified teachers through the grading course, a programme many head teachers in the country went through.
Ceesay indicated that the union continues to play a lead role in the country's education policy development process since its inception.
Fatou Ndey Bittaye, deputy director of Curriculum spoke on the role of teachers in attainment of competent curriculum.
"Curriculum is both a process and product and they are in the process of reform and it involves lot of things. It is the curriculum that can promote or determine the competency we want in students".
Bittaye reminded that in revising the curriculum there is a need to know what was in the previous curriculum.
"Research was conducted and platform from various stakeholders. The curriculum sector has received so many complaints from both the student and teachers which need to be reformed. The participation of all stakeholders especially Teachers and parents is very key on nurturing of children for a better Gambia". she stated.
Alasan Bah, president of the EDUSA, said the union was established to promote the welfare of students.
"It also provides opportunities for the education student union whereby they are going to explore and also in the area of education. As student teachers, we need to have avenues like this whereby we cater on our areas very relevant to what we are doing when we finish our degrees at the University of The Gambia."
Bah underscored the invaluable contribution of the students in the country’s education system, adding "knowing that we are students, we have to get our welfare taken care of".
