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allAfrica.com: Kenya: Teachers Blamed for Poor Maths Results - 0 views

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  • Teachers Without Borders on 24 Jun 11
     
    Students perform poorly in math and science subjects because teachers are incompetent, the National Council for Science and Technology has said. The council said most graduates from tertiary institutions are half-baked. "I have visited more than 40 public schools and institutions across the country and I can tell you for sure some of the math and science teachers are just incompetent," said NCST boss Prof Shaukat Abdulrazak.
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Heads reluctant to report weak teachers | Education | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

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schools teachers teaching report under-performance incompetence England

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  • Headteachers in England are failing to report weak teachers because they are worried about the effect it will have on their career and self-esteem, a study by the profession's watchdog said today.
  • But there could have been many more cases detected. Heads are frightened by the complexity of reporting incompetence and fear "the potential impact on [their colleagues'] well-being, career, self-esteem and health," said the government-commissioned report, Factors Contributing to the Referral and Non-referral of Incompetence Cases.There are wide discrepancies between what heads understand by "poor teaching", it said.
  • Many heads do not realise that they are required to report under-performance and are not trained or skilled enough to deal with weak teaching.
  • Teachers Without Borders on 26 Feb 10
     
    "Headteachers in England are failing to report weak teachers because they are worried about the effect it will have on their career and self-esteem, a study by the profession's watchdog said today."
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In Cairo, schools reopen as uncertainty remains - 0 views

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Egypt curriculum reform teaching

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  • CAIRO - Fatema Salah said her students had never sung the Egyptian national anthem quite the way they did Sunday, the first day back to school for most Cairo pupils. Before, they shuffled through the morning ritual, heads down and sleepy. This time, standing in the school's shady courtyard for the first time since the revolution, they belted it out.
  • "Today, everybody sang loud," said Salah, principal of the Dar El Tarbiah School, a secondary school in central Cairo. "It was real. Many of them were in [Tahrir] Square themselves. They are very proud."
  • But with the pride, nervousness remained. Nearly half of Salah's students were absent, and across the city thousands of families ignored the reopening of school, which had been anticipated as a step toward post-revolution normality.
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  • But new clashes over the weekend between protesters and the military renewed the sense of uncertainty in the Egyptian capital.
  • "Parents are still scared," Salah said. Many students were stranded, she said, because the government asked schools not to run buses through the city. "There are not enough police on the streets."
  • Teachers raced to make up for a month of lost instruction, but the toppling of Mubarak came up in every class. "We've been talking about the revolution all day," said Ahmed Younes, 16. "We never used to talk about politics at all."
  • So she encouraged her teachers to embrace the news of the day, even though they are still teaching with textbooks that have long chapters glorifying the achievements of Mubarak and his party.
  • Egypt launched an attempt to modernize the curriculum in 2006, but observers say schools largely remain incompetent and fawning.
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