New teacher training college to open in Ruhango district

Indangaburezi, a local non government organisation plans to open a teacher training college in Ruhango district. The college to be called “Indangaburezi College of Education,” is expected to award diplomas in education to students after a three-year course. The NGO has since 1980 run the Indangaburezi Secondary School in Ruhango.The college, according to officials, would help “meet the growing demand for teachers of the nine and twelve-year basic education classes, which the Kigali Institute of Education, Rukara and Kavumu colleges are not satisfying.”The college, whose provisional operation was endorsed during a recent Cabinet meeting, will start with six combinations, mostly oriented to education in languages spoken in Rwanda, including Kiswahili; education in computer sciences, education in economics, and the early childhood education.“Our civilisation is shifting to early education, yet we do not have enough knowledgeable people who would help in this quite specific education,” said Sylver Gatali, the director of Indangaburezi Secondary School and member of organising team commissioned to work out place the modalities.Owners of the college said everything is in place with enough infrastructure, equipment and 140 students who have already registered for different courses. Lecturers from local universities will serve as initial human resource.For a private higher learning institution to start, infrastructural, logistical and human resource requirements have to be presented to the National Council for Higher Education which examines them and reports to the Ministry of Education for approval.The ministry can then offer a provisional operating permit, valid for three years and renewable once, after which, the ministry can decide to give them the definitive operating licence or not.