By EUGENE OMILO
The Ministry of Education has been challenged to come up
with a common curriculum for pre - school learners to be instituted in all
nursery schools countrywide.
Shariff Nassir Foundation chairman Abdulswamad Shariff Nassir
said it is a pity that pre school learning has been left almost entirely to the
private sector as government has not invested in nursery schools.
Mr. Nassir spoke at Coast girls secondary school in Mombasa while presiding over a prize giving and
graduation ceremony for An - Nujum nursery school pupils.
"In
some places, nursery school children submit their homework through
email, this is where we want all our children to be but our government
must be on the forefront to provide direction, other stakeholders can
take it from there," said Mr. Nassir.
He called on the Teachers Service Commission to consider
employing qualified nursery school teachers.
His sentiments were echoed by educationist Ms Hafswa
Abubakar who said many nursery school teachers are well qualified but have been
sidelined by TSC.
“We were told to enroll for diploma certificates before
being considered, some of us went as far as getting degrees but we are yet to
be considered,” complained Ms Abubakar who said many pre school teachers depended
on the benevolence of their pupil’s parents to survive.
At the same time, Mr. Nassir encouraged teachers to guide
their pupils to embrace unity at an early age as a way of deterring them from
engaging in terrorist activities in future.
"Teach
our children to love one another and realize the importance of each one
of their colleagues.This way, they will grow knowing it is bad to harm
each other and they will shun terrorism and crime," said Mr. Nassir.
He was reacting to the current wave of young people being
arrested in Mombasa
in connection with belonging to criminal and terrorism groups.
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| Shariff Nassir Foundation chairman Abdulswamad Nassir presents a gift to Swalha Abdallah during a prize giving ceremony for An-Nujum nursery school pupils over the weekend. |
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| Abdulswamad Nassir presents a gift to Mohamed Hussein |
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| Abdulswamad Nassir presents a gift to Naima Hussein |
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