Rethinking secondary education

On May 30, the World Bank advisor on Global Education Practice, Mourad Ezzine, recommended that government scraps Primary Leaving Examinations (PLE). He among others gave as his reasons the need to save money but also that pupils were not learning. Thus, a call for automatic promotion to secondary schools and make secondary education part of the compulsory foundational education. Whereas this recommendation sounds out of context and may have challenges, it serves as a wake up call for us to focus on increasing infrastructure for secondary education.