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In-service training for teachers needed

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    A two-day national conference on education recently ended in Freetown with recommendations designed to uplift the sector and get all school age children back into classrooms, the Sierra Leone News Agency reported on Monday.

    Some of the recommendations, included an urgent need for an in-service teacher training programme, special help to children repeating classes, establishment of remedial work and a reduction in class sizes.

    The recommendations are to form an action plan to be presented at the World Education Forum to be held in Dakar, Senegal, 26-28 April.

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