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MP outlines plan to build more schoolsby Simba Nyamaume The Arusha Municipal Council (AMC) will this year start to implement a programme aimed at building at least one secondary school for each of its 17 wards. This will open up further education chances for pupils who sit for Standard Seven National Examinations. Currently, the AMC has a dozen or so public and private secondary schools which are insufficient for the ever increasing number of primary school leavers who pass their primary examinations. Out of 5,040 pupils who sat for Standard VII examinations last year, some 2,697 pupils successfully passed, but only 765 of them were selected to join Form One, leaving 1,932 others who missed places in secondary schools. These remarks were made by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Arusha Urban, Mr. Felix Christopher Mrema when he was addressing a public rally at the National Milling Corporation (NMC) grounds at Unga Limited area of the municipality. The government or public schools include Arusha secondary, Arusha Day, Kaloleni, Sinon, Terrat, Baraa and Lemara whose construction is due for completion by the end of this month, while Elerai, Engarenarok and Unga Limited secondary schools are still under construction. Private secondary schools and those falling under religious organizations include Arusha Meru, Sekei, Bondeni, Saint Joseph, Burka, Edmund Rice and Jaffery Academy. When Mr. Mrema was voted into Parliament in 1998, the municipality had only two government Secondary schools. The MP appealed to councillors to look for plots for
construction of the proposed schools. He said inadequacy of class rooms in the
existing schools is to blame for the insufficient Form One places in secondary
schools.
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