What is the purpose of education? To make good individuals or produce citizens? Has our schooling system, from independence to date, given us the education we need? Has it made us good individuals or prepared us as useful citizens? A good individual may not necessarily be regarded as a useful[Read More…]
Opinion
Defeating Pupil’s Poor Performance In Our Schools
Having read a number of articles in the media at the onset of the last rainy season about the poor performance of school pupils in The Gambia in recent years, I feel constrained as a concerned national to offer a couple of creative ideas as to a way-out. My primary[Read More…]
The Gambia In Numbers With Burama FL Jammeh (part 1)
GDP Regression/Growth : Gross Domestic Product (GDP) measure the aggregate final value of all productions in The Gambia in a given year. Our GDP is estimated at about US$1 billion (GMD45 billion @ D45/$). Our Per Capita GDP is thus estimated at US $500 (population estimated at 2 million). This[Read More…]