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My Assessment of The Liberian Educational System

The Liberian educational system faces three main challenges: centralization, instructional inefficiency, and corruption. Schools are clustered in Montserrado County, and rural schools lack qualified teachers, textbooks, and materials. Many teachers are untrained and do not follow the national curriculum, leading to student failure. Students often have to bribe teachers for good grades due to poor instruction. The educational system needs reform, including decentralizing schools and enforcing teacher qualification regulations, to improve instruction and reduce corruption.

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My Assessment of The Liberian Educational System

The Liberian educational system faces three main challenges: centralization, instructional inefficiency, and corruption. Schools are clustered in Montserrado County, and rural schools lack qualified teachers, textbooks, and materials. Many teachers are untrained and do not follow the national curriculum, leading to student failure. Students often have to bribe teachers for good grades due to poor instruction. The educational system needs reform, including decentralizing schools and enforcing teacher qualification regulations, to improve instruction and reduce corruption.

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Cuttington University Graduate School and Professional Studies

Sinkor, Monrovia

English 500 (Developmental English) Section 2

Student: Joshua J. Suku ID# GP15964

Instructor: Fr. James B. Sellee

My Assessment of the Liberian Educational System

The Liberian Educational System is most likely not a unique one. It is characterized by three

main challenges namely: centralization, instructional inefficiency, and corruption.

Past statistics and common observation reveals that educational institutions are clustered in

Montserrado as compared to other counties. According to the Liberia Education and Human

Resource Assessment done 1988, Access to schooling favors children in urban areas. At the

secondary level, 47 percent of all junior high enrollment and 1 percent of all senior high school

enrollment are in Montserrado county (which includes the capitol city of Monrovia). Rural

schools are less likely to have qualified teachers, textbooks, and instructional materials.

Although this study was done in the late eighties, this trend is still evident today.

It has been observed that majority of those teaching at the primary and secondary levels have

had no previous training from any institution. This is mostly seen in private primary and

secondary schools where employment is not based on qualification or on a merit system.

Teachers get employed based on recommendation or affiliation as in the case of a church

operated school. As a result, these teachers give instructions to students haphazardly and in

most cases they do not follow the national curriculum which lead to mass failure in public tests.

A part of this blame falls on the Ministry of Education who are to serve as the watchdog to our

nations education system. It is clearly evident that they are not doing their job.

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Because many students fail due to the difficulty of getting proper instructions from teachers,

they tend to bribe their way through to good grades. Students willingly pay a teacher in

exchange for grades as that seems to be the only way of getting a passing mark. In fact, it has

become a business for some teachers who intentionally make the learning process difficult just

to get more students paying for grades at the end of the semester.

The educational system needs a serious reform. Learning institutions need to be decentralized.

This will enable more enrollment for young people living outside of Montserrado County. The

Ministry of Education needs to double up on its role of enforcing the regulations on the

qualification of teachers at every learning institution. This will ensure that students are taught

properly which will lead to them making a passing mark, thereby getting rid of the need to

bribe any teacher for good grades.

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