{"id":36702,"date":"2018-01-05T10:54:16","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T10:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mineduc-to-conduct-drug-tests-among-students\/"},"modified":"2018-01-07T16:21:30","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T16:21:30","slug":"mineduc-to-conduct-drug-tests-among-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mineduc-to-conduct-drug-tests-among-students\/","title":{"rendered":"MINEDUC to conduct drug tests among students abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement released on Wednesday states that MINEDUC in collaboration with different Rwandan embassies around the world would like to establish and maintain an updated database of Rwandan students mainly those living abroad in order to continuously support and enhance education for all Rwandan students.<\/p>\n<p>In order to ensure a successful education and to mitigate challenges that students may face such as high repetition rates, use of drugs and excessive use of alcohol, expulsion from universities and deportation, students are required to provide their contact details by registering themselves at Rwandan embassies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrior to their departure, students should provide a medical certificate from a recognised hospital providing that students are drug-free,\u201d the announcement reads in part.<\/p>\n<p>Students were also required to attend a one-day induction programme to learn more about potential issues that may face them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis announcement concerns all Rwandan students studying or who intend to study abroad on Government sponsorship, Co-operation scholarship and private sponsorship,\u201d MINEDUC notes.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking at the National Dialogue Council (Umushyikirano) recently, President Paul Kagame called on all institutions to stand against drugs among the youth saying that it has become a worrisome matter worldwide.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23651 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/reb-2.jpg\" alt=\"REB Director  General signed the announcement\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) through Rwanda Education Board (REB) has announced that students going to study abroad will have to submit a medical certificate from a recognised hospital proving that they are drug-free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36702"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36702"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}