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Kafr Hemied School VisitResearch Findings
April, 2011
Presented by: Education Committee
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Research Content
• All about Kafr Hemied School
▫ How the School works?
▫ The Teachers
▫ Cost of Students going to school
▫ Number of students and classrooms
• SWOT analysis of Kafr Hemied School
• The objective of the Project
• Proposed Solutions and Programs
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How the school works? (1/2)
• Two separate periods:
▫ The capacity of the classrooms are not enough to take the number of students.
▫ Hence, the school operates on two separate periods of time, theprimary classes extend from 7 : am to 11:45 am.
▫ The preparatory school extends from 12:00 am to 4:00 pm.▫ Every class lasts for only 35 minutes.
▫ Primary classes have one teacher that gives all of the subjects.
• Sources of income of the school:
▫ School fees; they tell the students that they are book fees, yet books arefor free. There exists no firm system to collect the fees, some studentspay, others don’t. Some students pay in installments.
▫ Financial support from the ministry of education; 4000 LE (at the beginning of the year)+ 3000 LE (at the end of the year).
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How the school works? (2/2)
• Informal Education
▫ Informal classes usually start after school timings. There aresupplementary classes at the school and private lessons at one of thestudents’ houses.
▫ Supplementary classes at the school
Cost: Primary: 5LE/ student/ month
Preparatory: 10 LE/ student/ month
▫ Private lessons
Cost:
Primary: 10LE/ student/ month
Preparatory: 15 LE/ student/ month
The number of attendees are less than classes at school.
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The Teachers
• The total number of teachers are 23 teachers at the school
• Contracts
▫ اسسى (you can’t really fire them) ; they are more qualified as they have gonethrough more tests to earn the degree, like ICDL test. There are only 2 of them.
▫ متعقدين (15 yearly contracts)
▫ بلجر (6 free lancers)• Salaries
▫ اسسى : 417 LE
▫ :368 LE + bonusمتعقدين
▫ بلجر :121 LE + bonus
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SchoolFees(Book
Fees)
SchoolUniform
InformalEducation
Opportunity Cost
Cost of every studentgoing toschool
The cost of every student going to
school
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Number of students and Classrooms
• The school is composed of preparatory and primary school stages only .Grade Number of
Classes
Total Number
of Students
Males Females Drop Outs (منقطع)
(students who
are registered
yet don’t attend)
First Primary 3 145 76 69 None
Second Primary 3 138 78 60 5
Third Primary 3 133 57 76 10
Fourth Primary 3 144 69 75 12
Fifth Primary 3 139 77 62 19
Sixth Primary 2 133 66 67 31
First Preparatory
2 92 42 50
77
Second
Preparatory
2 77 45 32
Third
Preparatory
2 121 73 48
We can realize that the number of females to males at the school decreases ,as the educational grades increase. The number of drop outs also increase.
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SWOT analysis
Strengths
Opportunities
Weaknesses
Threats
• Willingness of teachers andadministration to cooperate
• Students (that we’ve met) don’tentirely hate school
• A large area of land that can be
used as a playground• Some of the teachers took CLE
training
• Afaq el hayah’s willingness to helpfinancially and technically
• Existence of teachers, if money was allocated to hire them.
• Relatively small village (easier tohandle)
• Teachers hit the students• No greenery/sports field within the school’s
campus• The number of students outnumber the
classrooms’ capacity • Two separate periods for prep and primary • Short classes (35 min)• Insufficient number of teachers• Fee collection is very undisciplined which
leaves the school with less income.• No supervision over the collection/spending of
money • High level of illiteracy among kids• Extracurricular activities are not encouraged
at the school, leaving students unhappy andnot motivated to learn.
• Rigid culture ( early marriage, unimportance of education)
• Poverty (makes working more attractive than learning)• Limited options (illegalities) on increasing the number of
classrooms• Underpaid teachers• Free education system at public schools• The teachers and principle regard as “Zy el 7okooma”
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Objective
To enhance the school experience of KafrHemied students and ensure that they
understand the importance of attending schooland continuing education
Quality of
Education
-TrainingTeacher
-EnhancingCurricula
Awareness
-Outreach toParents
-Raising
Awareness on theimportance of Education
Creating/Enhancing
School Systems
-Oversight on budget and
spending
-Creatingproperdisciplinary
systems
Completing the
role of the school
-Summer School
-Extracurricular activitieslike student union, school
magazine, etc.-Enhancement of Library Activities and Computer
Labs
- Football tournament
School
Facilities
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Suggested Projects
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Summer School▫ Summer school taking place at Kafr hemied by the end of May
and will last till the 20th of September.
▫ The objective of the program is to enhance the reading and writing abilities of the students.
▫ They need our help in:
Adding the fun element (e.g. Soccer tournament, music, art,etc)
Financial support (salaries for teachers and incentives for thestudents)
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Earn & Learn:• Students sense the poverty and decide that it’s better to work rather than go
to school, because:▫ They believe that whether they work or not, they’d end up like those who
didn’t go to school▫ They don’t benefit that much at school.
• Earn and learn (a project running in India) provides students with a sourceof income (has to be higher than what they’re currently earning) on thecondition that they go to school.
• The program adjusts itself to the life of the student and their exam timesand the time they need to study and excel at school.
• We need to find a supplier willing to base his workshop at Kafr Hemied andfind the market to sell the students’ hand made products. (carpets, khanElkhalili crafts)
• This Job would offer the students:▫ Better work conditions than the bricks factory,▫ Better Payment,
▫ Skills they’d use in the future.
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Teachers’ Task Force • Form a “Task Force” of experienced teachers from
different schools and different specializations,• This task force will be like an advisory body
responsible for:▫ Conducting regular workshops with the Teachers of Kafr
Hemied on different topics (e.g. Class management,Student behavior, Hitting the students)
▫ Providing Kafr Hemied teachers with tools they can use,
▫ Providing afaq el hayah with consultancy andrecommendations on how to best use our presence at KafrHemied school.
▫ This task force provides the teachers with the necessary trainings and technical skills
▫ (Ethics for the teachers and the technical skills)
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