OBE IS NOT THE PROBLEM

The Sunday Chronicle 25 September 2011

The Outcome Based Education structure is a curriculum that was introduced to our education system to enable more students participation and for the teachers to assess the students after every lesson. It is not OBE that is hindering us according to District Administrator Henry Kapao.

OBE is not the problem but it is our medium of education in which students in early stages are being taught in their local vernacular language then changed to English language in grade 3.

The fact is that grade 3 is being used as a bridge for students to learn and write English. This is failing badly because a grade 4 student can not even write up a simple composition unlike earlier days where only English was the medium of instruction.

The reforms are a disaster as long as we entertain tok ples.

Perhaps tok ples could be taught for two periods a week.

Please click on: Politics of Vernacular Language in the archives for September opposite.