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Sierra Leone
Schools without teachers
With only 19 percent of children in school following Sierra Leone's decade-long civil war, the former government began an ambition project of renovate and build more schools. But while brightly painted blue and white classrooms have already popped up in towns and villages around the country they come at a time when fewer teachers than before are willing to work in them.
Before the war, Sierra Leone had about 20,000 qualified teachers, Labour said, but that number has dropped to 15,000, mostly because of the proliferation of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) which offer teachers better salaries for humanitarian-type work.
Sierra Leone educationalists IRIN spoke with all agreed that the next government will need to do more than merely construct more schools. "Teachers have to be properly trained and paid decent salaries on time," retired schools inspector John Saradugu told IRIN.
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