{"id":42585,"date":"2021-01-04T11:53:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T11:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/studying-in-shifts-may-undermine-performance-kigali-students-fear\/"},"modified":"2021-01-04T13:51:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T13:51:04","slug":"studying-in-shifts-may-undermine-performance-kigali-students-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/studying-in-shifts-may-undermine-performance-kigali-students-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Studying in shifts may undermine performance-Kigali students fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) recently announced that students will be subject to some conditions including rotation of courses, reducing study time to avoid overcrowding as part of ongoing measures to prevent spread of Coronavirus pandemic.  <\/p>\n<p>Students at Kagarama Catholique have told Rwanda Television that rotation system might affect their performance during national examinations.  <\/p>\n<p> \u201cStudying in shifts, given a large number of students and shortage of classrooms, affects us as we prepare for national examinations.  It is disrupting courses and timetable,\u201d said Munezero Kevin.  <\/p>\n<p>Other students explained that they study in haste that teachers sometimes forget to catch up suspended course units.  <\/p>\n<p>The Acting Director General of Rwanda Education Board (REB), Dr Sebaganwa Alphonse explained that studying five hours is normal and aligns with prepared timetable.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWeeks of the academic year are counted taking into account minimal hours students should spend in class to cover the entire curricula.  That is five hours.  We have no students spending below three hours.  It is better to stay in class for more than five hours because students use that time to revise and do many exercises,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear that everyone stands chance to win, but depends on teacher\u2019s performance.  However, studying on rotational basis is recommended as per current plan,\u201d added Dr Sebaganwa.  <\/p>\n<p>Students from senior 3 and 6 are expected to sit for National exams in July 2021.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37526 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abanyeshuri_bagaragaje_ko_kubera_kwiga_basimburana_kandi_bitegura_gukora_ibizamini_bya_leta_bishobora_gutuma_batsindwa.jpg\" alt=\"Secondary school students in Kigali city have expressed worries that studying in shifts which saw studying time reduced from nine to five hours per day would affect their performance during national examinations. Photo File\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Secondary school students in Kigali city have expressed worries that studying in shifts which saw studying time reduced from nine to five hours per day would affect their performance during national examinations.}  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-homenews","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\/42585","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42585"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42585"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}