West Africa's Brightest and Best, 1985
- 1989
...we seek to trace the paths of some of
West Africa's most talented individuals over the last thirty five
years. What has happened to them? What contributions have they made? To
the world at large? To their native West Africa? Is early academic
achievement (for this will be our sole selector) a reliable predictor
for later success? What differences can be identified in outcomes
between the 'early' scholars (say before 2000) and the later scholars
(after 2000). For example, are later scholars more likely to be working
in their native country or region. What differences can be identified
in outcomes between the different nationalities. For example, do the
brightest Ghanaians achieve more success than the brightest Nigerians
in later life? ... What about gender? What effect does it have on
outcomes among this category? We hope to answer these and more
questions during the course of the series
Sierra Leone's
Data Hub Provides Comprehensive Educational Data
...Which
makes the new education data website from the Directorate
of Science, Technology and Innovation, State House, Sierra Leone
all the more refreshing. It is brim full with data for the years 2016
through 2018, down to the level of the
individual school, presented, with the aid of an interactive map, in a
fashion that makes even UNESCO's vast
UIS educational database look clumsy...
Three Ghanaian Girls Top
West Africa's WASSCE Exam
Remarkably, the three top candidates all came from a single school
in
Ghana, the Wesley Girls High School
West
African Examinations Council WASSCE Chief Examiners Reports
We present
recently obtained West African Examinations Council chief
examiners' reports for Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Gambia for the
WASSCE exam...
Education
Spending in Africa by Country
South Africa, at
$1522 in 2012 easily outstrips all other nations in Africa in education
spending.
Dysfunctional
Education
A comparison of WASSCE results across the region reveals Sierra Leone
in a disastrous position relative to Nigeria and Ghana...The table
below gives a three year comparison of performance at WASSCE for WAEC
member countries in the major subjects...
Illiterates
Rule
In truth, the only potential alternative for them is working the land.
Which raises the whole issue of why they left the land in the first
place, and agricultural practices and land distribution in Sierra
Leone and socio-cultural organization in the provinces. These are
questions the politicians avoid like the plague, so the issues are
swept under the carpet and the petty traders are allowed to eke out
their existence on the streets of Freetown...
2009
Old Princewaleans Letter to the President
...we feel obligated to write this letter to you to register our dismay
at the current deliberate erosion of the Prince of Wales School
property adjacent to the Kroo Bay waterfront by poachers as articulated
in articles published in the May 14, 2009 and July 1, 2009 issues of
the Premier News and Awoko newspapers respectively. This blatant
“land grab” and removal of earthen material in our view presents a
clear and present danger to our historic school buildings and the
school field...
Prince
of Wales School –Symbol of a Dysfunctional System (part 1)
Over the years POW provided a unique unifying influence within Sierra
Leonean secondary education. As it was a non-secular, government
institution, Moslems were drawn to it in comparison to the church
schools. Members of the Fourah Bay and Foulah Town communities in
particular have been well represented at the school over the decades.
POW also contributed greatly to female science education in Sierra Leone
WHAT
TOOK THEM SO LONG?
Six reasons why the Sierra Leone government took years to remove
squatters from their own top school...a la Richie Gordon