Schools for Burundi but little education

Agence France-Presse    Translate This Article
10 November 2013

On 10 November 2013 Agence France-Presse reported: Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza has built more schools in his eight years in power than all of his predecessors put together, but education levels are still at an all-time low. When Nkurunziza came to power in 2005, he immediately declared primary education free, a widely welcomed policy which resulted in the number of children registered for primary school tripling in a year. But the quality of that education has suffered. According to Unicef, a third of children retook a year of school in 2012, while 38 per cent dropped out. One of the reasons for the drop-out rate is that schooling is not actually free, as parents have to make a 'voluntary' financial contribution to the cost of building the school. In addition, they have to buy uniforms and school materials, while more children in school means there are fewer pairs of hands to help with subsistence farming and chores. In what is one of the world's poorest countries, and where most families count six or seven children, those fees can easily prove too much. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern education systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

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