Liberia: Can the Pro Poor Agenda Resolve the Nation's Education Crisis?

The attention of this newspaper has been drawn to a story carried in its Tuesday November 13th edition headlined "62 percent of Public School Teachers Not Qualified" quoting a recent World Bank report. According to the recent World Bank report, 62 percent of all teachers that are assigned in public primary schools across the country do not hold a "C" certificate.

The "C" certificate is the minimum qualification required for teachers in public schools in Liberia. The World Bank also reports that teacher quality at the secondary level is very low where only about a third of secondary teachers possess the minimum qualification which is a University degree or an "A" certificate.

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