Assessing the Level of Pedagogical Progress in each region

The Minister of Secondary Education presides over the Coordination Meeting with Regional Delegates

 Professor Nalova Lyonga, Minister of Secondary Education, in her commitment to ensuring quality education across the national territory, presided over the coordination meeting with Regional Delegates of Secondary Education on Wednesday 31 January, 2024 at the premises of Distance Education Centre. In attendance were SEESEN, the Secretary General, officials of the central administration, Regional Delegates of MINESEC.

The primary objective of this meeting was to assess the level of pedagogical progress implemented in each region during the first term of the ongoing academic year. The progress was centered on statistics with regards to hours covered, syllable/ lesson covered (theoretical, practical and digitalized lessons), and evaluating students’ performance. From the statistics presented by the Regional Delegates, it was encouraging to notice that apart from digitalized lessons which had a low coverage rate, hours covered, theoretical and practical lessons and student’s success rate were all approximately above 45 percent. 

Next was the percentage of students across the country who received report cards at the end of the first term and the measures taken to see into it that all students receive their report cards. From the presentations of the Regional Delegates, more than 95 percent of students received their report cards at the end of the first term. However, as at the time of the meeting, the constraints which stopped most students not to receive their report cards had been resolved.

Besides these, emphasis was equally on the percentage rate of students who had registered for end of year certificate exams. It was noticed that the number of students who have registered for DECC exams this year have recorded a significant drop as compared to last year.

At the end of the working session, Professor Nalova Lyonga gave the following recommendations to the Regional Delegates:

Regional Delegates should send a monthly report of the progression rate registered in their respective regions, comparing it with previous year’s situation to the appropriate structure of the central administration;

They should also deplore RPIs on the field regularly in order to ensure lessons are effectively taught in their respective regions;

Again, Regional Delegates should immediately put in place catch up strategies in order to cover up for instructional time lost during the first term. The Minister should receive the remediation strategy from each Regional Delegate with immediate effect;

Regional Delegates should regularly send a list of names of teachers who are absent from their duty posts with justification documents;

In addition, Regional Delegates should send a list of vacant posts in their respective regions immediately to the Minster in order for the necessary measures to be taken to that effect;

Lastly, Regional Delegates should engage their respective sub educational communities in the fight against violence in the school milieu.