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Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) has announced that the three faculty systems (Arts, Commerce, and Science) will be replaced with a five-stream system in senior secondary schools.
The new stream system will consist of the following five streams:
1. Science and technology
2. Language and literature
3. Mathematics and numeracy
4. Social and cultural studies
5. Economics, business, and entrepreneurship studies
Each stream will have three sets of subjects: core subjects, applied subjects, and everyday subjects.
The MBSSE says that the new system is necessary because the old system was not preparing students for the world of work. More than 70% of students who complete senior secondary school do not enter tertiary education, and those who do not go to university are often not prepared for broad occupational fields or general employment.
The new system is designed to address these shortcomings. It will provide students with a broader education that will prepare them for the world of work, cultivate the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that lead to enlightened citizenship, and shift from memorizing to genuine learning.
All senior secondary schools in Sierra Leone must offer at least three streams, and they may offer up to five streams if they have the capacity to do so and meet the official criteria. Decisions on how many streams and which streams a school can offer must be based on staffing, facilities, equipment, and track-record of competence.
Each district in Sierra Leone should have all five streams in some form in their schools. Learners should not have to move outside a district to access a specialist stream or key subject. This may require special support to enable selected schools to offer streams or subjects that may not otherwise be available within the district.
The new stream system will be implemented gradually, starting in the 2023/2024 academic year. The MBSSE is working with schools and districts to support them in the transition to the new system.
This is really welcoming.
It’s a plus to nation SL 🇸🇱
Impressive, good transition for us the students .
Great 👌
The minister is not talking about the withheld wassce result what is going on, from the time he promised that he is going to have a meeting with the wassce personal we have not yet had nothing from the the minister.
Please minister help us to get our results we can’t afford to lose that, some of us go true a lot of things just for us to take the exam
Jjn
Great work done sir
One of the major challenge here is the students will have to move to faraway schools if schools in their localities are not offering their opted streams. This will likely lead to high transportation costs, migration of students, dropouts, and teenage pregnancy.
What is the status of our SSS one pupils this academic year? Uptil now no BECE result for the kids.
the message is incomplete. Five streams, what are the core requirements for each stream to enter tertiary institution/university/college? If it is still compulsory math and English plus any other 4 subjects to make it to university, then I don’t see the difference. The great power don’t pressure their students to sit a one time exam to go to university. Instead they do a credit accumulation from middle school to final year of highschool. Now the west is lacking in mathematics and English is their native language. While in Sierra Leone our students are doing well in math and sciences. Then we make it difficult to go to university just because of a language that is not our language. That is the area they should work on