A total of 17,138 students started sitting for the National Form Four Examinations in Kagera Region on Monday. Kagera Regional Education Officer (REO) Mr Florian Kimolo said the exams started on Monday at 221 examination centres.
He noted that 15,619 students were registered in government secondary schools – 1,237 in private schools while 282 others were private candidates. He said all necessary logistics had been completed and appealed to students and supervisors to be faithful and ensure that there were no examination leakages.
Meanwhile, over 600m/- is urgently needed to rehabilitate the dilapidated infrastructure at Kishoju Secondary school in Muleba District, the Headmistress, Ms Witness Amos, has disclosed.
She noted that the school was established 35 years ago, with most of the buildings being in pathetic condition. “Over 600m/- was required to rehabilitate 24 classrooms and 12 teachers’ quarters.
We also plan to construct a computer lab, an administration block and a water tank with the capacity to hold three million litres of water,” she said. According to Ms Amos, Kishoju Secondary School started as a private school under the Kagera Cooperative Union (KCU). It was handed over to government in 2002. To date, there were a total of 1,228 students including 967 boys and 561 girls from form one to six.
A total of 168 students including 77 girls and 99 boys were expected to complete Form Four this year. She also said the school had 24 teachers with a shortage of 12 teachers, most of them for science subjects.
Source Tanzania Daily News
