MOBSE to extend contact hours in summer holidays

 By Landing Colley

Minister of Basic and Secondary Education has announced plans to subsidies lost contact hours in the summer holidays.

Honorable Claudiana Ayo Cole made the announcement before lawmakers saying the loss of contact hours will directly affect about 674,300 students in conventional and recognize Madarasa schools.

“After this pandemic the Ministry will design way to recover the lost instructional house this will include the extension of school days or week paying attention to double shifting where it is applicable.

“Intensive and extensive classes for examination classes to recover the lost time with option of rescheduling examination desk,” she said.

She said her Ministry is also in plans to reschedule the curriculum delivery plan and strengthen the monitoring of implementation of recovery strategy through the class monitors who visit their schools regularly.

She added: “In those cases we will perhaps extend the school week to include the Saturdays and in other cases even the holiday will be cut down and extend the school terms so instead of two week of holiday we may say one week. This is all to make up the loss contact hours.”