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Gahana: Education Ministry to hand Ejisuman teachers for prosecution if…

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Ghana/March 3, 2018/Author: Nathan Gadugah/myjoyonline

Resumen: El Ministerio de Educación dice que entregará para enjuiciar a cualquier maestro encontrado culpable por un comité de siete miembros creado para investigar denuncias de conducta sexual inapropiada contra maestros de Ejisuman SHS.

The Education Ministry says it will handover for prosecution any teacher found guilty by a seven-member committee set up to investigate allegations of sexual misconduct against teachers of Ejisuman SHS.

Deputy Education Minister Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum who revealed this on the Pulse programme Tuesday said the Ministry will not countenance any act of child abuse or sexual misconduct by teachers against students.

Apart from the prosecutions, he said there will other disciplinary action taken against the teachers by the Education Ministry.

 “I want our people to know at Ejisuman SHS and indeed on all schools across the country that the Ministry of Education will not tolerate cases of sexual harassment and child abuse. These are, if it is true, criminal offences and we will liaise with law enforcement authorities to deal with them,» he stated.

He said issues of sexual harassment have no place in the Ministry of Education.

His comments come in the wake of allegations by students of Ejisuman SHS in the Ashanti Region that some of the teachers are sexually abusing them.

Some of the students claim the teachers forced them to stroke their manhood until they ejaculated.

Others say some of the teachers also forced them to suck their manhood, a claim the teachers have vehemently denied.

The seven-member committee tasked to investigate the allegations has concluded with its investigations and is expected to present its report to the Ministry by close of day Tuesday.

Even though he is yet to receive the details of the investigations, the minister doubted if the students will “manufacture” the allegations against the teachers.

“The report is not yet with us. It will get to us by close of day today. We take these allegations seriously. We believe it is unconscionable for students who have been sent to a place of learning and instruction to be maltreated by anybody,» he stated.

«We are waiting anxiously and patiently for the report of the committee which I have been assured by the regional director that it will come to us this evening.

“Once we get the report we will deal with it swiftly,” he assured.

The Minister has also condemned disciplinary measures said to have been taken against the students.

He told Gifty Andoh Appiah he has instructed authorities of Ejisuman to stop any disciplinary hearing said to be going to on which he believed will further demoralize the students.

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Education ministry to introduce new compulsory subjects at high schools in Japan

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Japon/February 17, 2018/By Jiji/Japantimes

Resumen: El Ministerio de Educación publicó el miércoles un borrador de las directrices revisadas del plan de estudios para las escuelas secundarias, incluida la introducción de rekishi sōgō (historia integral) y kōkyō (asuntos públicos) como nuevas asignaturas obligatorias.

The education ministry released a draft Wednesday of revised curriculum guidelines for high schools, including the introduction of rekishi sōgō (comprehensive history) and kōkyō (public affairs) as new compulsory subjects.

New comprehensive history courses will cover the modern and contemporary history of both Japan and the rest of the world. In public affairs students will learn about issues including those related to popular sovereignty — governing according to the will of the people. In 2016 the minimum voting age was lowered from 20 to 18.

Active learning programs intended to nurture students’ ability to independently identify problems and solutions through debate and presentations will be introduced in all subjects.

The ministry will solicit public comments on the draft until March 15, and announce the new curriculum guidelines by the end of fiscal 2017 on March 31. The new guidelines are scheduled to be introduced in stages from fiscal 2022.

Revisions to curriculum guidelines for elementary and junior high schools have already been made, and are set to be fully implemented from fiscal 2020 at elementary schools and from fiscal 2021 at junior high schools.

The complete revision of high school curriculum guidelines will be the first since 2009.

The ministry hopes that the revised guidelines and the fiscal 2020 launch of a new unified university entrance examination system will help raise high school students’ level of understanding. The new exams will replace the system currently handled by the National Center for University Entrance Examinations.

The number of credits required to graduate from high school will remain the same at 74. The ministry will not reduce the amount of educational content, in a continued shift away from the yutori (relaxed) education policy.

In addition the new guidelines will make it compulsory for high school students to take chiri sōgō (comprehensive geography), which will cover contemporary geographical issues including those related to the environment and disaster prevention.

The ministry will also introduce as an optional subject risū tankyū, in which students independently choose themes involved with the fields of mathematics and science for research.

Computer-related subjects such as information security will be introduced, and courses in programming will be compulsory through elementary, junior high and high school.

English will be reorganized into two categories, with one aimed at comprehensively developing students’ listening, reading, speaking and writing skills while the other focuses on strengthening their speaking and writing abilities.

The number of English words students will learn at elementary through high school will increase to about 4,000-5,000 from some 3,000 at present. This is in addition to the adoption of English as an official subject for elementary school fifth- and sixth-graders under the new primary education curriculum guidelines.

Fuente: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/02/15/national/japan-introduce-new-high-school-compulsory-subjects/#.WoYzkLzibMw

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Education Ministry Names 32 Moroccan Private Schools Suspected of Grade Inflation

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Morocco/October 17, 2017/By Morocco World News

The Ministry of National Education has published a list of private schools suspected of inflating students’ grades during the 2016-2017 school year exams.

The ministry issued a press release on October 10 revealing the names of the private schools. The list, published October 10, follows the ministry’s initial statement on October 6, explaining that 32 private schools would be subjected to strict disciplinary measures for inflating baccalaureate students’ continuous assessment grades.

The ministry indicated that it will no longer allow the private schools in question to count the continuous assessment grades in the “Massar” until the ministry’s inspectors verify the veracity of the students’ grades.

The ministry’s investigations showcased that there were huge disparities between the students’ continuous grades and their baccalaureate results and regional grades. The ministry of education stated that it would not tolerate such practices, which it said were contradictory to the principle of equal opportunities between students. Education Ministry Names 32 Moroccan Private Schools Suspected of Grade Inflation

325,191 Moroccan students took the 2017 baccalaureate examination, which took place from June 6 to 8. 30,446 exam-takers came from private schools.

More than 729 fraud cases were recorded on the first day of the 2017 national baccalaureate examination. However, the number represents a 62 percent decrease of fraud cases since last year, when 1,898 fraud cases were recorded on the first day of the national exams.

Source:
https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/10/230842/education-moroccan-schools-grade-inflation/

 

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