Annual report on Basutoland / Colonial Office.

  • Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth Relations.
Date:
[1960]
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Credit: Annual report on Basutoland / Colonial Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    our high schools in the middle sixties. In the meantime places have been offered to Basotho by Southern Rhodesia, and a pre-degree course is being run at Pius XII College. The possibility of running Higher School Certificate courses at a separate junior college will also receive consideration. One high school, and one junior secondary school are maintained by Government, and controlled by Boards. The rest are Mission run, although Government is represented on the board of management of Peka High School, which is a joint Paris Evangelical and English Church Mission school. One junior secondary has a commercial bias and runs a two- year post junior certificate clerical course. Four junior secondaries are privately run by the Roman Catholic Mission. All secondary schools are well housed and equipped, and have well qualified staffs. No fees are charged for tuition, but pupils have to pay boarding fees, and pay for their own books and stationery. Bursaries are provided in necessitous cases. Boarding fees vary from £20 to £28 per annum. TEACHER TRAINING. There are seven colleges for the training of primary teachers, and Pius XII College trains at post-secondary, and post-graduate levels. All seven primary colleges run three-year post-standard six courses for the Basutoland Primary Teachers’ Certificate, and five ran in addition, the two-year post Junior Certificate course for the High Commission Territories Primary Higher Teachers’ Certificate. Teachers are also trained at post-graduate level at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and at colleges overseas. Our local training colleges produce as many primary teachers as can be absorbed into the system with the funds available. The Director has to limit the rate of replacement of unqualified teachers by qualified ones because of financial limitations. The output of newly qualified teachers exceeds 150 per annum, the vast majority of whom are absorbed within the Territory. Our Primary Higher courses have however trained a few teachers each year for the other High Commission Territories, This will not be necessary in future as both will train for their own requirements. * i VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. Trade-training has been carried on at two centres, Lero- tholi and Leloaleng. Both have run courses in building, carpentry, leather work and motor mechanics, Lerotholi has