Education in the Gambia takes place in 5 stages: lower basic, upper basic and secondary school, followed by undergraduate and graduate university. The 6 years of lower basic education at least is compulsory and free. Still not every child has an opportunity to get education. There is a selection examination at the end of this period which is the hurdle to continuing further. Lower basic education continues for another 3 years leading to a junior school certificate.
Those students whose parents can afford the cost of ongoing education continue with 3 years at senior secondary school. Their core curriculum includes English language, mathematics, integrated science and social studies. They also take 3 – 4 elective subjects too, which may center on commerce, science or the arts. Finally, they sit for their west african senior secondary certificate examination. Source: scholaro.com
Fees for Senior Secondary students are about D4,550 a year in a state school and the fees for a student at a private Senior Secondary school vary from D4,800 to D16,000 a year. Some funding tools are provided to Senior Secondary students like scholarships, aids and grants, sponsorships, education loans and some students take part-time jobs to be able to finance their studies.
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Basic funding for schools in GGG project come from different sources: sponsors, state or a business run by apprentice students. Lack of resource is still an ongoing issue so one aim of the Master Trainer -program is to learn fund racing tools and methods in social media. With GGG funds we are producing a manual for that to support individual fund racing in each school.
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