Samuel Kallon 
Africa 24 news
“Our colleges don’t have online courses like overseas’ universities do,” says a teacher at an infant school in Waterloo.
Mr. Jusu is teaching at Grace school at New England in Waterloo and he has a diploma in Social Work from a college in Sierra Leone.
“I just did my diploma course and I think of upgrading it to a degree, but through an online means,” he said while speaking with our journalist in Waterloo.
The teacher at a kindergarten school and primary wishes to see a system in universities that offer space for learning opportunities through online.
He said that could save him some cash rather than to be always going for physical classes.
In a country that is badly affected by rising prices on almost all public services due to the current hyperinflation, face-to-face classroom tutorials to students is a burden for those who don’t have jobs at all.
And even those who do have like Mr Jusu are struggling daily to cope with their family members as their salaries are so minimal to foot their home bills.
The Grace School teacher is working on a community sports project as alternative means to supplement his income monthly, but he is facing lots of financial difficulties to be able to upkeep his life and family.
Hence, he needs a higher learning course in Social Work through an online means. But only when things get better for him. He surely can’t do the course now even it is an online.
“Our colleges don’t have space for online programs, I want to do my next degree in Social Work in an overseas’ online platform.
That can be easier and more opportune for me.”
“I tell your for free there are lots of opportunities that outside universities are offering to students through online that our [local] universities are lacking in that regard.”
While Mr. Jusu is not alone in this condition that is to be receiving so small a salary and to be on the look out for an online university, a great many learners of Sierra Leone are hoping to see a “regime change in local universities curricula” by starting to offering online programs on certificates, degrees and diplomas.
