20 primary schools shut down in the West Region

The information was revealed by West Regional Delegate of Basic Education Leopold Benjamin during a Central Conference that brought together Basic Education Officials.

The shutting down of these Primary schools falls in line with Governments’ plan of prohibiting schools that have fallen short of the appropriate requirements, of which the twenty schools were found wanting and worse is the fact that they lacked qualified teachers.

Apart from the 20 clandestine schools, the West Region has 899 nursery schools and 676 primary Basic Education experts also discussed better ways of barring away terrorism in the Region among which were the prohibition of the wearing of veils and the provision of access cards to visitors in schools.

Experts also discussed means of improving inclusive learning so to enable pupils with disabilities to effectively participate.