By Calvin Quays|LPR News, Monrovia
The Project Director of the “Liberia Dujar Association” School System has underscored the need for government to provide more budgetary support for the education sector in the country.
According to Director Dennis Toe, seeking for more budgetary supports to the Ministry of Education will a long way to revamp and strengthen the educational system to move the nation development forward in the near future.
Director Toe made the assertion Thursday June 4, 2020 in an interview with the Liberia Public Radio held at Dujar School in Gardnerville outside Monrovia.
He noted that if Liberia’s development agenda should move faster, it will requires the preparation of its citizenry in the education sector, adding that education is the key for transformation in any nation and Liberia cannot be exception.
He stressed that the empowerment of Liberians through the education sector is critical for the total growth in the socio and economic development of Liberia and government should not neglect the investment in education.
Director Toe explained that the increment of the budget support to the Ministry of Education could trickle down to private schools across the Liberia through government subsidies.
He disclosed out that private schools are finding it difficult to maintain their standard of operation due to lack of subsidies since the end of the Liberian Civil Conflict ,but government intervention to prepare the nation human resource is crucial for the transformation of Liberia.
According to him, Liberia needs more professional teachers to enhance the learning process in the classrooms and this must be given serious attention to put Liberia on path with international standard of learning.
Director Toe observed that as the results of COVID-19 outbreak in Liberia, senior students never have the chance to take the West African Senior Secondary Certificates Examination (WASSCE), but schools can still arranged it for the next academic year if students will be promoted in the 2019 and 2020 academic year.
He asserted that COVID-19 which is global pandemic has created huge gaps in schools system around the world and hoped that whatever decisions the Ministry of Education will come out with for the resumption of school, the time frame should not affect the 2020 and 2021 academic year.
He believed that the eradication of COVID-19 from Liberia as soon as possible will help to normalize the school system and the process of educating Liberian children will resume again.
