Why is practical learning vital in the national syllabus of South Sudan?
3 min readMading Abraham Majur, Kampala, Uganda
November 11, 2015 (SSB) — A lot has been said and it is still said about our poor education system. The problem is that the current system does not promote quality and also ignores relevance of learning in terms of whether the graduates at different levels of our formal education system have acquired life skills or not.
The different examination bodies have a lot to do or deal with but they should integrate before dealing with such issues. May be one need to ask whether the entire syllabus at different levels should not be revised to give more time for practical learning for relevance and application, also what is our ministry of education doing? Break the silence and do something.
Should government focus on our country’s literacy levels.
Literacy is defined as one’ ability to read with understanding and to write meaningfully in any language, the ability to read and write is an important personal asset, allowing individual to increased opportunities in life.
Knowing the distribution of the literate population can help those involved in communication in particular fields e.g. health; education, politics, environment and etc. plan how to reach population with their messages.
At all levels of education, life- long learning skills should impart on the students. We need to revise the writing culture as well. This is evident that most books used are either imported from Uganda or elsewhere in the world.
Very few South Sudanese are writing books and as a result most of the books used are imported, few staff in higher education institutions writes books.
Lastly, the reading culture in South Sudan is fundamentally lacking. Other than reading for a formal qualification, very few South Sudanese engage in life-long reading.
This should be as a result of lack of emphasis on reading ability in the crucial first few years of a child’s school career since a child’s education stems from their ability to read well, more so the ministry of education is silent only waiting for salaries at the end of the month.
The literacy rates in South Sudan are still too low and more effort is needed. Despite that those adults still could not read and write and mostly fewer than half of all adults in South Sudan are youths and they had no basic literacy skills as I mentioned above among them are youths.
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