LETS STRIVE TOWARDS QUALITY EDUCATION
Times of Malta states the following at their website:"Quality education is not an easy concept to qualify. At a time when we are discussing a quality education for all our learners it is important to take time to understand this concept.
The document Tomorrow's Schools (1995) had asked the following
question: "What are considered to be the basic requirements of a quality
education - one that is meaningful, worthwhile, responsive to
individuals and social needs - and does each and every student, without
fail get those requirements, regulated as these are by the principle of
entitlement?" (p. 8)
According to the Education For All: Global Monitoring Report 2005 - The Quality Imperative (EFA: GMR), two principles characterise most attempts to define quality in education: the first identifies learners' cognitive development as the major explicit objective of all education systems. The second emphasises education's role in promoting values and attitudes of responsible citizenship and in nurturing creative and emotional development." (p.17)
Quality determines how much and how well children learn and the extent to which their education translates into a range of personal, social and developmental benefits."
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The above excerpt captures what an education system should strive to accomplish: Develop learners' cognitive ability and impart personal, social and developmental benefits to learners.
The current over-emphasis on papers and exam grades in Kenyan education system is to blame for candidates going to any length to get leakage for national exams. We need to wake up and stop judging learners only on the kind of grade on their final exam but wholly on the kind of person they have become after going through the system.
www.princejosephcenter.co.ke
According to the Education For All: Global Monitoring Report 2005 - The Quality Imperative (EFA: GMR), two principles characterise most attempts to define quality in education: the first identifies learners' cognitive development as the major explicit objective of all education systems. The second emphasises education's role in promoting values and attitudes of responsible citizenship and in nurturing creative and emotional development." (p.17)
Quality determines how much and how well children learn and the extent to which their education translates into a range of personal, social and developmental benefits."
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The above excerpt captures what an education system should strive to accomplish: Develop learners' cognitive ability and impart personal, social and developmental benefits to learners.
The current over-emphasis on papers and exam grades in Kenyan education system is to blame for candidates going to any length to get leakage for national exams. We need to wake up and stop judging learners only on the kind of grade on their final exam but wholly on the kind of person they have become after going through the system.
www.princejosephcenter.co.ke
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