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Girls schools excel in Form Six exams
2008-05-10 10:45:30
By Sinde Ndewasinde
The Form Six examination results show that girls` schools outsmarted boys`schools in their scores. Indeed, two schools which topped the list, both belong to girls; Kifungilo Girls Secondary School and Kibosho Girls Secondary School in that order.
This was divulged by The National Examination Council of Tanzania (NECTA) Executive Secretary, Dr Joyce Ndalichako, when speaking to the press early of this week in Dar es Salaam.
She also said that there had been an improvement in performance this year, as compared to last year.
Our first duty is to congratulate the girls, who did so well. Considering that there are still a few parents, who are reluctant to educate their daughters, these results are encouraging indeed.
Moreover, younger girls, who are in lower classes will have an incentive to even work harder, aspiring to imitate what their elder sisters have done.
In fact, these results can have a very positive domino effect. Parents of the girls, who did so well, will be contended that the money they spent on their daughters was well utilized, and thus, do the same for any.
Younger sibling Expectedly, the girls themselves will thus set higher goals of working even harder as they proceed to institutions of higher learning.
Even though I am a male, I am not surprised at all that these girls excelled in their exams and beat boys` schools to a distant third place.
Girls work very hard generally. Think about it: at home it is the girls, who will most often cook, wash dishes, wash uniforms - even for their brothers.
Thus, working hard comes naturally to them and they apply the same philosophy to their academic work.
Most men, who have sisters will agree with me that our sisters always get better academic results than we do, even though most often the men end up with better work positions and better pay.
This is because of the world which has kept the position of women perpetually lower than that of men.
But I guess things are beginning to change, as we see women demonstrating in different ways how sharp their intellect is.
Truthfully, this has always been the case; after all, it was a woman- Marie Curie- who discovered the elements radium and polonium. This enabled her to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1911.
And let us not forget the African-American woman - Tony Morrison, who also won the Nobel Prize for literature in the early 1990s. That was a great achievement.
Well, may be this is an opportune time for all boys\' secondary schools to pull up their socks and take the gauntlet that the girls have thrown down to them. They should equal the girls in performance.
Actually, girls have now served fare notice, they are telling the boys: ``catch us if you can.`` Indeed, that is a mouth watering prospect. Good luck to the boys then; they will certainly need it.
Let us now turn to media reports of last week, which said that Chief Justice Augustino Ramadhani last Wednesday called on workers in the judiciary to change their working habits which play a large part in the delay of administration of justice.
The Chief Justice was giving a talk to workers from different district courts during his tour of primary and district courts in Kagera Region.
The Chief Justice acknowledged that the justice department is viewed negatively by the public because of the delay in processing various cases.
This is indeed commendable by the CJ. He has hit the nail on the head because that is exactly how people feel.
They blame the judiciary for delaying their cases and they also assert that some of the delays are totally needless.
Some cases are straight forward, but sometimes they drag on and on and in the end culprits get away with whatever they did because of the long time it takes to prosecute them.
This can cause a lot of ill-feeling amongst the public and therefore, reduce confidence in the justice system.
The Chief Justice rightly chastised the workers for unnecessarily delaying cases by antics like hiding case files. He warned against this ugly practice.
The general public will certainly be pleased to note that even though the Chief Justice acknowledged the shortage of primary courts magistrates, he still said that a change in work habits of judicial workers will speed up court cases.
Therefore, the ball is now in the pitch of the court of judicial workers.
The learned ladies and gentlemen plus their supporting staff will have to heed the call of the Chief Justice and thus, restore public confidence in them.
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