What’s wrong with our educational system?
Well, what’s wrong with our educational system? This is a question to which all most all the people of fuvahmulah need an answer. A justifiable answer and yet we never got a reasonable answer. May be it’s because of the way we are approaching to the question. Let’s make it in another way, what is good with our educational system? Is there is anything good in our educational system? I don’t see anything good in our system of education.
Indeed I would say that the whole education system is in a mess and is fully corrupted. Well now most of you would be wondering what made me conclude this. Well there are millions and billions of reason and in this article I would be looking to some of them.
Well it’s been years now since Gn Atoll Education Center (GN AEC) started teaching GCSE O’ level but the progress of the students and the school below our expectation. Who should be blamed to this? The students? There is no way in which we can blame the students because there are great minded good students in Fuvahmulah and the whole Maldives will agree with this fact. If the students are not good enough to produce a good result then how are they producing good results in their higher level of studies in other schools and institutes. Gn AEC is not being able to provide good results because they quality of education they provide are not good enough to mark their name in the history. Yeah I agree with you that there are certain times in which students of GN AEC have reached top places in national top ten. Well the big question is why the students of GN AEC can’t reach those places in every year. The answer is very simple, it’s because the quality of education provided in GN AEC are not consistent.
How can they provide good quality education with those resources they have? and the most surprising thing is that the management had never tried to boost their resources. Well I agree that there are all the necessary equipments and resources but are they worth enough to provide a good education to the students? The science lab and computer lab could be described as a body without head. Then the library, how many students are able to get additional reference materials other than those given by teachers from the library. The answer sure will be zero. It’s the same case years ago when we studied and still it’s the same case. Today if I see a good book from the library and the next time I go there I won’t be able to find that book and no one in the library knows what happened to it when we all know that that was stolen. It’s a very common thing and yet the librarian and the school management are unable to provide a justifiable explanation. It’s not only the case with library; the same case goes to the computer lab. Anyone who dared enough to take a stock of the materials in the library and computer lab would be surprised to hell and will be demanding an answer to what happened to the stock they had in there. Everyone knows that this happens but never a good action was taken.
Now let’s have a look on labour resources; teachers. There are dozens of teachers teaching to GCSE o’ level and a’ level. How many of us had ever wondered whether these teachers are qualified and disciplined to teach us, to our brothers and sisters and to our children. Most of foreign teachers are good and well disciplined; a good example could be Economics teacher and supervisor Mr Joseph Thomas. But what are the conditions with our local teachers. Are they enough disciplined and qualified. I would say no, because very closely I have seen their life as teachers and community members. How many of the supervisors have got supervisors qualification with them?
Now let’s have a little look on some selected teachers. Firstly let’s look at Mohamed Ibrahim Didi (bulhlha be), currently a secondary dhivehi teacher. When I first heard that he started teaching the subject Dhivehi to secondary classes I was shocked to hell. The reason being that I believe he has neither the qualification nor the discipline to teach maturing teenagers. Ever since he came to teaching field he is a very famous figure. he came to the scene of the public because of the close bond he have with his students. Because of the extra little help he gave to his ‘hot’ students. Because of the discrimination he created between girls and boys whilst these boys and girls are his students. And mostly because of the love affairs he had with his students.
