Pambazuka News

Mali: Teacher strikes may mean ‘blank’ school year

2008-06-13, Issue 380

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/education/48778


In Mali the most important exams come last: the baccalaureate at the end of June. But this year, with secondary-school teachers in their seventh straight month of strikes, the exam risks going unmarked, meaning students may face a blank school year. That is making many of them angry.