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Background information anu prggr^So Page 4. 10 March 1965 HOSTEL ADMINISTRATION In addition to the Director and the Administrative Secretary, the Mozambique Institute has a Dean of Students and three staff teachers. The Dean of Students also teaches. The student body has elected a Student Council which discusses and helps decide upon the problems of the students related to the running of the hostel. The Dean of Students sits in on the meetings of the Student Council. There are five prefects and five sub-prefects on the Council, and they are charged with the responsibilitiy of managing student work groups and chores, supervising students committees, etc., as well as acting as the voice of the students to the administration and staff. The Council has taken its duties seriously and serves its intended functions well. PROGRAMME OF THE KURASINI INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE Since moving to its new site on Kilwa Road, the African-American Institute Special Training Centre has changed its name to the Kurasini International College, and is popularly known a& the "KIC". Luring the past year and a half the African-American Institute has been trying to make its school into a proper secondary school. The new year has brought a concrete change in the programme, and the running of the school has already shown improvement and increased order. The bulk of the teaching staff is composed of Project Tanganyika workers, young people from Harvard and Radcliffe who are volunteering a year of their work to this project. Qualified teachers are being sought both here and in the United States, and they will be able to raise the level of instruction even higher. A new counselor for the students was employed at the end of last year; one month ago a new headmaster arrived; and a few weeks ago another qualified teacher was added to the staff. With the arrival of these new staff members, the administration of the school has shown great improvement. Although in the past there seemed to have been no well-defined class levels at the school, a new structure has been set up covering Standard VII through Form IV, based on the Tanzania syllabus and working toward the Cambridge Certificate. Where necessary there is some modification in the syllabus to fit the needs of the refugee students. The basic subjects are maths, history, geography, English and science. There are several elective courses offered from v/hich the student may choose. a11 classes are held in the morning, the afternoon being free for study, if the student wishes to use it so. a source of difficulty to the Mozambican students is the necessity of learning English before he can participate fully in the KIC programme. Some language medium had to be decided upon, and the African-Mjnerican Institute chose English from the standpoint of the usefulness of the language in pursuing higher education and because of the availability of teachers, although it was first suggested that there be a double stream of students — one stream English-speaking and one Portuguese-speaking — it was decided that it would entail a much greater expense and more cumbersome programme than could be envisioned at this time. Therefore, a more intensive English language training programme has been set up at the school. During the course of one year it is hoped that a student who arrives at the school speaking
Object Description
Title | The Mozambique Institute - Background information and progress, 1965 Mar. 10 |
Description | Informative essay written by Janet Rae Mondlane about the Mozambique Institute. Contents: General organization of the hostel in Dar es Salaam (p. 1); Hostel administration (p. 4); Grades of the secondary school students (p. 4); Qualifications for entry in the Mozambique Institute secondary school programme (p. 4); The primary school programme at the Mozambique Institute hostel (p. 4); Mozambique Institute buildings and facilities (p. 6); Staff teachers at the Mozambique Institute (p. 8); Educational programmes at the refugee camps: Bagamoyo Camp (p. 9); Lindi-Mtwara Camps (p. 9); Financial support (p.10); Conclusion (p.11). |
Subject (lcsh) |
Nationalism -- Mozambique Self-determination, National Mozambique -- History Portugal -- Politics and government -- 1933-1974 |
Geographic Subject (Country) | Mozambique |
Geographic Subject (Continent) | Africa |
Geographic Coordinates | -18.6696821,35.5273356 |
Coverage date | 1964-11/1965-02-22 |
Creator | Mondlane, Janet Rae; The Mozambique Institute (Instituto Moçambicano), Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika |
Publisher (of the Digital Version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
Date created | 1965-03-10 |
Date issued | 1965-03-10 |
Type | texts |
Format | 11 p. |
Format (aat) | essays |
Language | English |
Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
Part of collection | Emerging Nationalism in Portuguese Africa, 1959-1965 |
Part of subcollection | Mozambique Collection |
Rights | The University of Southern California has licensed the rights to this material from the Aluka initiative of Ithaka Harbors, Inc., a non-profit Delaware corporation whose address is 151 East 61st Street, New York, NY 10021 |
Physical access | Original archive is at the Boeckmann Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies. Send requests to address or e-mail given. Phone (213) 821-2366; fax (213) 740-2343. |
Repository Name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
Repository Address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
Repository Email | specol@usc.edu |
Filename | CENPA-210 |
Description
Title | CENPA-210~04 |
Filename | CENPA-210~04.tiff |
Full text | Background information anu prggr^So Page 4. 10 March 1965 HOSTEL ADMINISTRATION In addition to the Director and the Administrative Secretary, the Mozambique Institute has a Dean of Students and three staff teachers. The Dean of Students also teaches. The student body has elected a Student Council which discusses and helps decide upon the problems of the students related to the running of the hostel. The Dean of Students sits in on the meetings of the Student Council. There are five prefects and five sub-prefects on the Council, and they are charged with the responsibilitiy of managing student work groups and chores, supervising students committees, etc., as well as acting as the voice of the students to the administration and staff. The Council has taken its duties seriously and serves its intended functions well. PROGRAMME OF THE KURASINI INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE Since moving to its new site on Kilwa Road, the African-American Institute Special Training Centre has changed its name to the Kurasini International College, and is popularly known a& the "KIC". Luring the past year and a half the African-American Institute has been trying to make its school into a proper secondary school. The new year has brought a concrete change in the programme, and the running of the school has already shown improvement and increased order. The bulk of the teaching staff is composed of Project Tanganyika workers, young people from Harvard and Radcliffe who are volunteering a year of their work to this project. Qualified teachers are being sought both here and in the United States, and they will be able to raise the level of instruction even higher. A new counselor for the students was employed at the end of last year; one month ago a new headmaster arrived; and a few weeks ago another qualified teacher was added to the staff. With the arrival of these new staff members, the administration of the school has shown great improvement. Although in the past there seemed to have been no well-defined class levels at the school, a new structure has been set up covering Standard VII through Form IV, based on the Tanzania syllabus and working toward the Cambridge Certificate. Where necessary there is some modification in the syllabus to fit the needs of the refugee students. The basic subjects are maths, history, geography, English and science. There are several elective courses offered from v/hich the student may choose. a11 classes are held in the morning, the afternoon being free for study, if the student wishes to use it so. a source of difficulty to the Mozambican students is the necessity of learning English before he can participate fully in the KIC programme. Some language medium had to be decided upon, and the African-Mjnerican Institute chose English from the standpoint of the usefulness of the language in pursuing higher education and because of the availability of teachers, although it was first suggested that there be a double stream of students — one stream English-speaking and one Portuguese-speaking — it was decided that it would entail a much greater expense and more cumbersome programme than could be envisioned at this time. Therefore, a more intensive English language training programme has been set up at the school. During the course of one year it is hoped that a student who arrives at the school speaking |
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