Teachers enrol for computer lessons

The school, which is being built by Vice President John Landa Nkomo, was recently installed with state of the art computers to offer Information and Communication Technology (ICT) courses to pupils and villagers.
Matabeleland North provincial education director Mrs Boithatelo Mnguni confirmed the development in a telephone interview yesterday.
“We have 25 headmasters from all the 25 secondary schools in the district who have started training. Each head was accompanied by one teacher to undergo training as well.

“It is a short course meant to give them an appreciation of how to use computers in teaching different subjects. They started training on Tuesday and they are staying at the school,” said Mrs Mnguni.
“We have also organised a training programme in the next holiday in April. Each school will bring two pupils who will camp there for two weeks until we finish.
“As we speak one of our directors Mr Jabulani Mpofu and Mr Timothy Mabhena have gone to the school to monitor the training exercise. Mr Mabhena will take the opportunity to monitor the site for the dormitory for girls, which will be constructed soon.”

Mrs Mnguni reiterated the need for the programme to include pupils from the San community living around the school.
She expressed gratitude to VP Nkomo for his commitment to building a modern school in rural Tsholotsho, saying ICT training was useful in improving the quality of education.

“We appreciate having such a facility in the district. It will go a long way towards assisting teachers in enhancing pupils’ learning                 abilities.
“We also urge teachers to undergo training. Computers can be used to record information for use by teachers. They can also use them for revision purposes,” said Mrs Mnguni.

Manqe Secondary School was established in 2007. To date the school, which has been electrified, has a well built administration block, science block, teachers’ cottages and four classroom blocks.
VP Nkomo is on record as saying his dream was to make Manqe Secondary the best rural science boarding school.
He said he would soon build a home             economics block and dormitories to accommodate pupils.