Victoria High in bad state – Coltart

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21 June 2011

By Charity Munaki

The Minister of Education, Sports and Culture David Coltart this week visited the Government owned Victoria High School amid complaints from parents and students that conditions had gone down.

He agreed that conditions had become appalling.

Coltart said during the visit that, “I have come to see the state of the school and to address students and parents on the concerns. I cannot disagree with what is being said because the school is in a bad state.

“Students are overcrowded, boarding facilities have deteriorating and there is poor supply of water and a pathetic ablution.”

“We now have donors coming to assist with text books for O’ level core subjects. “We are just about to issue out millions of text books so that by the end of the year we will have one textbook per student system and we want to thank UNICEF for that.”

“A survey we conducted on Victoria shows that the school needs thousands of dollars to get back to the old Victoria High and I promise that we are doing something but would warn that the rehabilitation will take a bit long,” he said.