By: Lamin B. Darboe
The Principal of Brusubi Upper Basic and Senior Secondary School revealed that in 2018/19 school academic year, the students who sat to all national examinations raised the flag of his institution higher.
Principal Peter O. Jatta made this revelation during the graduation and prize giving ceremony of 2018/19 batch of students at the school premises on Saturday.
According to Jatta, his school in 2018/19 school academic year presented 240 candidates to National Assessment Test (NAT) and they obtained 94% pass rate, while in GABECE, 165 candidates registered and they recorded a gross pass rate of 87%. One Pa Mbaye did well in GABECE by obtaining aggregate 7 thus revelation that all most all the 2018/19 students who sat to GABECE obtained required aggregates for entry to senior school.
For WASSCE, 62 candidates sat to the said exam, where they registered 87% pass rate adding that two students did extremely well in the said exam by the names of Fatou Chune and Omar Cham both scored 9 Credits each.
Fatou Chune he continued scored 4As, 4Bs and 1C while Omar Cham scored 2As, 4Bs and 3Cs and he stated that Omar Cham was offered scholarship to pursue his first degree at one of the best Universities in the Kingdom of Morocco while Fatou Chune is comfortably pursuing her first degree at the UTG.
Brusubi Principal was proud of the following students for scoring 8 Credit passes namely; Mansata Sanneh, Haddy Njie, Faddy Secka, Mariama Jallow, Samba Jallow and Sanusi Camara respectively.
According to Principal Peter O. Jatta, all of these students either gained entry to UTG or other tertiary institutions to further their academic or professional studies.
Delivering his keynote address with the theme: “The power of the Human Brain in the Struggle between Truth, Opinion and Lies” the guest speaker at the occasion who double as the Education Specialist at UNICEF, Nuha Jatta said human society is superior to other creatures.
Mr. Jatta reminded the audience that since the dawn of the New Gambia, Gambians have seen so many struggles between truth, opinion and lie, noting that it is Gambia that produces the best and brightest brains.
“You need to know that your freedom and dignity, whether intellectual, economical, spiritual or social is in your hands, nobody will grant it to you, you have to earn it on your own and your tool is your brain,” Jatta advised students.
