Pambazuka News

Sierra Leone: Ghost schools, phantom progress on education

2008-10-03, Issue 399

http://pambazuka.org/en/category/education/50994


Magnus Kamara is a school inspector with a difference. He has been hired to find schools that don't exist."It has been a shocking experience. In some of the towns and villages we visited, there were neither school structures nor genuine teachers, but the government was always paying salaries and subsidies to them, on monthly basis."