Kwania: Where female teachers only prefer schools in urban areas

23 February 2023, 11:42 am

By Bobson Opio

Kwania district local council V chairperson Geoffrey Alex Ogwal Adyebo has expressed concern that schools in hard to reach areas lack female teachers. Ogwal Adyebo made this observation while appearing on Qfm’s yite twolo morning talk back program hosted by Bobson Opio and Leslie Ojom Nek.

According to the district chairman, data from the education department shows that a bigger percentage of female teachers were largely posted in Peri-urban areas of the district. Ogwal says this is unfair because girls in these rural schools also need the guidance of senior women teachers.

He says this will soon be revised in the interest of promoting the academic performance of the girl child. Meanwhile in the recently released PLE results, Kwania South registered only one female pupil in grade one while 69 girls out of 155 candidates   passed in Division one in Kwania North.

Ogwal Adyebo says lack of female teachers in some of the schools in Kwania is contributing to the poor performance of the female pupils. Kwania is among districts that performed poorly in the PLE exams for 2022 in the country and this was a key topical discussion during a council meeting held on Wednesday.

Among the resolutions passed by the council is that parents should contribute at least shillings 15,000 towards the education of their children with the view that it will enhance the financial base of UPE schools to provide quality education.

On the other hand, the district chairman says they will soon distribute desks in some of the schools that are lacking them and this among others include Agwaa Primary school which has only 72 desks, Atuma primary school in Nambyeso sub county (40 desks) and Amambale Primary school