Freetown, Sierra Leone – The Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education has assured parents, teachers, and pupils that schools across the country will reopen on or before 15th September 2025 for the start of the new academic year.
Speaking at the Ministry of Information and Civic Education’s weekly press briefing on Tuesday, Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Conrad Sackey, confirmed that the government had cleared outstanding payments to schools.
A total of NLe 113,287,870 has been disbursed as subsidy for the 2024/25 academic year, with the first term subsidy for 2025/26 scheduled to be paid on time.
The Minister also addressed recent concerns over the suspension of 4,900 teachers from the payroll. He revealed that 1,802 affected teachers have already been reinstated, with further reviews ongoing in collaboration with the Teachers’ Union.
Minister Sackey emphasized that the government remains committed to meeting its obligations to schools and teachers, ensuring a smooth and timely reopening of the 2025/26 school year.
The government need to monitors school enrollment before payment of subsidy .
the reasons is most of heads of schools inflating the number of enrollment because of subsidy. The government supervisors are not working for the interest of the country but to fill there pocket.
the government need to stand firm otherwise it’s a big problem for the generation to come.