News Sierra Leone Education: Sierra Leone: Center Girls’ Voices in Education Reforms
The Sierra Leone government should prioritize the views and experiences of girls to advance its education reforms, Human Rights Watch and Purposeful said today in a new report. Despite the government’s important progress on access to education for girls, many girls who are pregnant, living in poverty, or in rural areas remain at risk of exclusion from school.
News Sierra Leone Education: A new book goes inside Boko Haram’s abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls
She interweaves their story with her own, as an intrepid reporter with roots in neighboring Sierra Leone, determined to publicize the girls’ plight. One link between the narratives is the conviction ...
News Sierra Leone Education: Sierra Leone: OGP On Nationwide Consultation
The National Council for Civic Education and Development (NaCCED) has started a nationwide consultation on the development of the Open Government Partnership (OGP) National Action Plan in various districts, chiefdoms and regional headquarter towns across Sierra Leone.
News Sierra Leone Education: Sierra Leone: Amnesty International joins legal challenge against government ban on pregnant girls attending school
Amnesty International hasdocumentedhow the ban, which was imposed after the Ebola crisis in 2015 by Sierra Leone’s then Minister of Education, put the rights of thousands of girls under threat. ...
News Sierra Leone Education: African Countries Stress Need for Data, Financing in VNR Main Messages
According to its main messages, Sierra Leone (LDC) recently launched the Medium-Term National Development Plan 2019-2023 on ‘Education for Development,’ which is aligned to the AU Agenda 2063 and the ...
News Sierra Leone Education: ‘In Sierra Leone, children don’t get to think outside of the box’
In Sierra Leone, the education ministry and the Sierra Leone Teachers Union collaborate to make policies about the educational cycle. Their policies mainly centre on teachers delivering everything to ...