The year 2023 ends on a note of satisfaction from those responsible for the Collective of Education Professionals (CPE). This structure fought against all odds to achieve its objectives in the context of taking care of contract teachers, hit by many months of unpaid salaries. In an interview given to a reporter from Guineematin.com this Friday, December 29, the president of the CPE, Moussa Doré, affirms that there has been progress in the education sector during 2023.
“There have been fewer problems this year than before. You know, in the past, the school year started with a lot of crises in schools,” said our interlocutor at the outset.
Furthermore, Moussa Doré returned to certain actions to be taken by those responsible for the education system. “The particularity of this year 2023, with the list of applications that we are making today, is digitalized. That is to say, all candidates who must participate in the baccalaureate and the BEPC, it is digital entry. This helps prevent fraud at school level. The second thing is that many schools have been renovated in Conakry as well as throughout the country. Certainly, last year teachers went 9 months without pay; and afterward, they were paid for 3 months. But later, we reached an agreement with the Government for the engagement of contract workers in the civil service. So, beyond the suffering that our comrades experienced, here is the positive aspect, and today, the machine was triggered, the mission traveled throughout the country to identify the contract workers. To date, the work is complete,” indicated Mr. Doré.
However, this operation to enlist municipal contract teachers has encountered hiccups, specifies our interlocutor. “Besides all this work, today we have some colleagues inside the country, while we did the identification, they were not identified. This is the case of Dinguiraye, Dabola and Télimélé. But, the Department of Education sent a memo to all decentralized education structures in order to provide the list of omissions, also the list of new contract workers who occupied classes this year, to join with the list general, in order to definitively put an end to this story of contract workers,” he indicated the president of the Collective of Education Professionals.
For the year 2024 which is on the horizon, Moussa Doré aims high in the fight to improve the quality of education, through educational training and especially the improvement of the living conditions of teachers. “The major challenges for improving Guinean education are teacher training. In reality, who speaks of a teacher is that he is trained. In Guinea, when you know how to speak the language of Molière, you can teach directly in class; and yet, it’s not like that. To teach, you have to be an educational psychologist at the elementary level; in secondary school, you have to be a psychologist, then a didactician. So, you need to know the different pedagogies. Today, there are not 40% who have educational training. Which means that every year, we accuse our children to say that they do not have the level; but in reality, those who transmit knowledge sometimes cannot do it, and that becomes a problem. We must also move towards the construction and renovation of schools. I was very recently in Labé, I went to Koubia and Mali, the schools in the regions, it’s not worth it. Shed schools in the 21st century, which are surrounded by monkeys. We must rebuild our schools and place emphasis on training. Even if we hire all the contract workers, we will need teachers. To alleviate the need for teachers in Guinea, it is to restore the special status of trainer training schools. The ISSEG is there and trains teachers every year, who leave, able to teach. The ENIs are there too. Why not restore these special statuses so that those who leave these schools are directly assigned to Guinean schools and assigned. That way, we will no longer talk about the need for teachers. In the past, during the time of the late Lansana Conté, when you left, you were sent to do 6 months of internships. Afterwards, you are automatically committed. Since we do not want to resolve the crisis, we must always increase it. Minister Guillaume Hawing must focus on training teachers and improving their living conditions. Then, the construction of schools, he advises.
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