The Ministry of Education is planning to establish a nursery school in the
lowest administrative Sector in the country as a way of strengthening early
childhood education.
This was revealed by the Minister of Education Dr. Charles Muligande
yesterday during a meeting between the members of the media and the ministers on
the social cluster cabinet committee.
The meeting aimed at highlighting some of the programmes in the cluster for
the next seven years.
Research has shown that pre-school education helps in mental cognitive
development of the child at an early stage and helps many families in providing
adequate early-childhood nurturing.
Explaining that nursery education was one area which is still weak in the
education sector, Muligande said that plans to overhaul it were underway.
“We are planning to hold mass sensitization of all our stakeholders including
individual investors about nursery education,” he under marked.
He said that they had already started equipping nursery school teachers with
special skills in handling infants between the age of three and five. The
training is on going in all teacher training colleges and at Kigali Institute of
Education.
The minister also explained that established nursery schools at the sector
level will also be acting as model centres for all those interested in investing
in the schools.
Speaking at the meeting, Health Minister Dr. Richard Sezibera who chaired the
social cluster committee explained that among the other goals in the cluster is
to at least have the number of Rwandans surviving on one dollar a day going
below 30 percent, by the end of president Paul Kagame’s seven-year term.
According to Sezibera, implementing the twelve years of free education as
promised by the President during his campaigns was also among the top
priorities.
He said that by the end of the term, all Rwandan children will be assured of
twelve years of free education.
He also said that the government is committed to further improve the health
of its citizens by strengthening the health insurance scheme and training more
health workers to reduce the existing deficit in the Doctor-Patient ratio.
By Charles Kwizera
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