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The government says it wants to ‘foster a supportive environment for childbearing’, yet at the same time it is closing schools. Rather than a crisis, the fall in student numbers is an opportunity to have smaller classes and fix the learning gap left by the pandemic.
Secretary for Education Christine Choi opted not to meet group of parents and pupils asking her to refrain from axing local school’s Primary One classes.
Sources say schools were told earlier this month by Education Bureau they could not operate Primary One classes in next academic year.
Five schools preparing to close, according to local report, with others made to merge amid falling school enrolment numbers
Excitement was visibly written on the faces of some primary school teachers in Kaduna State on Monday as they touched and operated the computer for the first time ever.