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What's happening in 2008: 5th May - The Point - Gambia St. Charles Partakes in Global Week on Education... recently joined millions of schools around the world to get politicians aware of their commitment to providing quality education for all in the world. ... 28th April - The Point - Gambia Education is a Basic Right- Secy Grey Johnson Madam Adelaide Sosseh, Chairperson of the Education for All network Gambia , revealed that in 2000, world leaders gathered first in Dakar and later in New ... More than 3000 people will attend the World's Biggest Lesson to which the President is expected to attend. The highlight World’s Biggest Lesson is taking place in the Fonni area of Western Gambia on the 23rd April. Lead politicians are going back to school and being taught a lesson in English and Arabic by young adult learners. Amongst the teachers for the day will be the famous Gambian musician Jaliba Kuyateh and his band. Whilst this is happening similar events are taking place across Gambia’s other 5 regions with many schools holding the World’s Biggest Lesson. On Friday 11th April one of the leading newspapers (The Point Newspaper) carried an article on GWA 2008. This paper is online and can be accessed at http://thepoint.gm/ Media Coverage: 25th April – AllAfrica - Gambia 21st April – FOROYAA - Gambia 21st April – The Point – Gambia 16th April – FOROYAA – the Gambia 14th April - The Point - Gambia 5th March - the Point - Gambia Photos:
What happened in 2007? The cross-country chain with Senegal worked a treat in getting the attention of the country’s education leaders. The Permanent Secretary, Department of State for Education highlighted the importance of education for national development, and pledged that any child identified to be outside of the school system would be supported to go to school.  2008 Report Card PDF
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