Mr. Osuji Otu, Director of UNESCO Regional Office in AbujaMonrovia — The Director of UNESCO Regional Science Specialist in Abuja, Osuji Out, has said at a forum in the Liberian capital that students have declined greatly when it comes to the sciences, thus leading to failure during public examples. “Science subjects in school have declined; students are more focus on arts,” said Mr. Otu at the start of a three-day training organized by UNESCO for some 60 science teachers in Liberia on Wednesday, April 17. “Not that students do not love science but the presentation by teachers has made students’ interests to decline,” the UNESCO official added. “Even in West Africa, you find out that the West African Examinations Council (WAEC Exam), there is a decline in student passing those science subjects,” the UNESCO Regional Science Specialist said. You cannot give what you don’t have.”The UNESCO training workshop was intended for 60 science teachers in Liberia and it was coordinated by UNESCO Liberia office, in Monrovia last Friday, April 19.

Source: Front Page Africa April 23, 2019 00:56 UTC