Public conference in Dédougou on school and the RPP: civic duty and patriotism at the heart of school reform
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In Dédougou, Prof. Moumouni Zoungrana engages 700 students for the Progressive Popular Revolution (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
In Dédougou, a public conference on civic and patriotic education brought together more than 700 students in the presence of Secondary Education Minister Prof. Moumouni Zoungrana. The students made commitments on discipline, civic duty and rejecting drugs.
Public conference in Dédougou on school and the RPP: civic duty and patriotism at the heart of school reform (opens at the publisher, in a new window)
In Dédougou, the regional education directorate held a conference on civic duty and patriotism in schools, linked to the RPP and the reform of Burkinabè education. The secondary education minister urged students, teachers and parents to support the reforms.
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