Education - Sierra Leone

During the dry season, the country normally faces electricity crisis due to inadequate water in the Bum Buna hydro dam, according to many experts, and electricity is one of the key facilities for one to progress in his or her studies.

The Freetown Rotary Club has come to the rescue of the Freetown Secondary School for Girls (FSSG) border by installing solar power on the entire border area so that pupils and staff might enjoy during and after the dry season.

Education For All Sierra Leone Coalition has stated in a validated report Tuesday 17 that there is about six hundred and twenty-two billion Leones funding gap which is about 15 percent.
“About 51 percent of that gap is related to uncovered development expenses. Interventions such as handicapped accessible schools and WASH facilities fall under development spending,” the report states.
The report, titled ‘National Research on Education Gap and Domestic Financing in Sierra Leone’ was validated at No.

Pupils and staff of the Modern High along Jomo Kenyatta Road were yesterday in a jubilant and fulfilled mood after learning of a gesture from a Sierra Leonean John Musa who made a donation of computers and other electronic materials to the school.

The donation, John Musa said, is part of several programmes to take Information Communication Technology (ICT), to schools and universities and this is a means of giving back to the people and communities that helped him get to where he is today.

The Sierra Leonean who finished his studies and later worked in an engineering company in the United States of America, said he intends to give computers to students in the school and for other pupils in other schools. He has set up the Musa Foundation with the objective so that with these tools they [pupils] will create a structure for them to follow to become the next future leaders of the world.

Dr Will-Sillah, Principal of the Institute of Advance Management and Technology (IAMTCH) on Saturday noted the steady increase in the number of both graduates and new intake during the 2016 convocation ceremony of the institute.
As academic breeds and prominent figures processed to the peaceful Abie Paula Amphitheatre, Dr Will Sillah commended the University administration for leading the way for technology advancement in the country which, according to her, has made the institute more competitive to other international institutions of learning.