MEETING IN PROGRESS
By Friday
Simbaya, Songea
TANZANIA Heads of Secondary Schools
Association (TAHOSSA) Regional Chairperson, Fr. John Chrysostom OSB has urged
heads of schools in the region to look presentable by dressing well because the
inner person represents the outer person.
He said that personality to heads of schools is
crucial to them because as a teacher you should not be dressing anyhow. “How
someone dresses reflects his/her character,” he added.
The chairperson made the statement during a two-day
meeting held at Peramiho, Songea District in Ruvuma Region which started on 27th
-28th February, 2014.
He noted that there some heads of secondary
schools in the region who are poorly dressed especially when they are attending
various meetings.
“It is a duty of the head of school to dress
nicely during his/her official duties but to refrain from dressing like a
soccer player by wearing a jersey in office. It is very disappointing to find a
head of school dressed like somebody else which makes difficulty for people to differentiate
a mere teacher and the head of school. The headmaster/headmistress should
always look smart but not just when he/she is attending a meeting,” he noted.
TAHOSSA Ruvuma is composed of six districts
namely Songea Rural, Songea Urban, Namtumbo, Mbinga, Tunduru and Nyasa and a
total number of 172 members.
Also other TAHOSSA regional leaders include the
Vice chairperson, John Sweke, Secretary, Ephigenia Nzota, Treasurer, Lucida
Msabila and the zonal chairperson Ponsiano
Ndunguru were among the delegation who attended the meeting.
According
to the TAHOSSA vice Secretary of Ruvuma Region, Raymond Chengula, the theme of
meeting was to discuss both administrative and academic issues. Administrative
issues such as district reports with following information of district composition
for instance, number of schools like the government, non government and seminaries,
circular letters (sharing what has to be implemented, what is new, what are
best ways to implement).
Other administrative issues discussed during
the meeting were regional education officer report, the implementation of ‘Big
Results Now’ commonly known as (BRN) and proper way of using capitation grant.
On the issues of academic, the vice secretary
said; they touched also on mock examination arrangements and other exams,
subject seminars and form II and IV results analysis.
However, Ruvuma region has a total of 113
secondary schools government, no government and seminaries. As usual the
religious owned schools in the region have protruded during the last years form
IV results 2013 and were among the best ten schools in the region.
The first best secondary school regional wise
was Peramiho Girls of Missionary Benedictine Sisters of Tutzing in Songea Rural
District, the second position was Hanga Seminary of African Benedictines in Namtumbo
District, the third position went to Stella
Matutina Secondary School in Namtumbo District, the fourth went to De Paul Secondary School in Songea Municipal,
St. Agnes of Chipole in Mbinga got the fifth position, St. Augustine sixth position and seventh position went to St.
Benedict of Namtumbo District and the rest were government ones including
Songea Boys, Mkinga and Taifa Foundation in Songea Urban.
Ruvuma Region has a total number of 113
secondary schools both government and private schools.
In summary, there were a total of 9,189
candidates who sat for form IV exams last year and results were 108 students
scored division one, 390 scored division two, 450 scored division three,
student who obtained division four were 4,428 and candidates who got division
zero were 4,313.
In order to improve academic performance in
the region, members of the meeting have resolved to work together as a team to rescue
the sinking boat of education in the region, hence improving education standard
in the region.
However, Ruvuma region most students in the
region did not perform very well in the two subjects namely history and
geography during last form IV final exams.
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