Gambia Education

INTRODUCTION

The advantages of instruction towards guaranteeing a superior life are various. It can change the livesof individuals like young ladies or other helpless gatherings, for example, vagrants or kids with incapacity. Therights of these gatherings are secured by global traditions and revelations and memberstates have reacted by marking such bargains instituting laws and approaches that ensure theinterests of such individuals as kids and ladies. For instance, Article 28 of the Conventionon the Rights of the Child (CRC) states that: state gatherings ought to perceive the privilege of thechild to instruction and ought to make essential training necessary and accessible free for all.Evidently, the 1997 Constitution of the Gambia, the incomparable law of the nation, guaranteesevery child‟s right to free, obligatory and fundamental education.Located in west Africa, just marginally not as much as double the measure of Delaware circumscribing the North Atlantic Ocean and Senegal, lies the littlest nation on the mainland of Africa, the Gambia. Of the assessed 1,925,527 inhabitants of the Gambia, 90 percent are of Muslim religion and the populace can be regarded mono-ethnic with just 1 percent of the populace reported as non-African.

The Gambia's training use was an expected 4.1 percent of the GDP in 2012 and positioned 109th in correlation to whatever is left of the world. The Gambia's education rate (characterized as the individuals who are 15 and over and can read and compose) for the aggregate populace was evaluated at a minor 51.1 percent in 2011 (male: 60.9 percent, female: 41.9 percent.) In examination, the United States pairs this rate with 99 percent of the aggregate populace regarded as proficient.

The school future, essential to tertiary training, in 2008 totaled to just 9 years—the U.S's. school future totaled to 17 years. Adding to low school participation rates is the pervasiveness of youngster work (kids ages five to 14), which was assessed at 103,389 (25 percent) in 2006

The Gambia’s Education Structure: Lower and Upper Basic School

The formal arrangement of training in the Gambia works on a 6-3-3-4 framework. Essential instruction comprises of six years of essential (lower fundamental) and three years of upper fundamental training, together totaling to 9 years of continuous fundamental training.

Regularly, gambian kids begin school at age seven. From ages seven to 13, the understudies are enlisted in a lower fundamental school. At review six, understudies take a position exam.

At age 13, understudies enter an upper fundamental school for a long time until they are 16 years of age. Upon fulfillment the upper fundamental school, the understudies take a Basic Education Certificate Exam (BECE) in nine or 10 subjects and this finishes their essential training. Contingent upon their execution on the terminal examination offered in the ninth grade, the understudy may go to a Senior Secondary School or other Vocational Training procurements.

As indicated by the U.S. Government office, "Until 2002, essential instruction went on for a long time and prompted the Primary School Leaving Certificate (eliminated). Auxiliary training was partitioned into junior optional schools, which offered a three-year course prompting the Junior School Leaving Certificate, and Senior Secondary schools which offered a three-year course. Since 2002, another brought together essential training framework was presented covering 1-9 years, through a programmed move with no examination toward the end of the lower fundamental cycle. The cycle is partitioned into two cycles: lower fundamental (Grades I–VI) and upper essential (Grades VII–IX)."

In the Gambia, there are 368 lower fundamental schools and 89 upper essential schools. Another sort of educational system in the Gambia called the essential cycle schools is a blend of the lower and upper fundamental school.

 

Senior Secondary School (SSS)

Admission to Senior Secondary/High School is exceptionally aggressive in the Gambia. 75 percent of Gambian understudies go to government schools. As indicated by the U.S. International safe haven, "Auxiliary schools offer a mixed bag of subjects in science, expressions and trade. Understudies in all the 55 Senior High Schools take a Core educational program comprising of English dialect, coordinated science, arithmetic and social studies. Every understudy likewise takes three or four elective subjects, looked over one of seven gatherings: sciences, "expressions" (sociologies and humanities) or business (visual expressions or home financial aspects)."

University Education

Like the United States, gambian understudies seeking after an undergrad program at a college will normally think about there for a long time preceding getting their four year certification. There is likewise a lot of Gambian understudies considering in the U.S. In the 2007-2008 scholastic years, 330 Gambian understudies were considering in the U.S. at different times. Additionally like the U.S., Gambian understudy may promote their training at a college as a graduate understudy for over a year to acquire their Master's