82 1st LM 159 419 1st SCA 0 0 1st SCB 68 211 TOTAL 1st 242 654 TOTAL 2nd Cycle 871 1,868 GRAND TOTAL 8,149 15,074 The challenges which hinder the harmonious development of secondary education appear essentially in ten (10) areas: - The Infrastructure: The reception capacity of the secondary school infrastructure is currently very low in view of the ever increasing social demand for education at this level. It is not rare to find classes of 70, 80 even 100 pupils in our schools. - The lacunate management of communal colleges: • lack of adequate infrastructure; • lack of educational material and equipment; • lack of staff at the quantitative and qualitative levels; • over-forecasting in the establishment of schools; • establishment of communal colleges has not been followed by the gradual suppression of the first cycle secondary boarding schools; • the problem of administrative supervision: overlapping between the communal administration and the central administration of the National Education Ministry. - The lack of Teachers: The teaching field no longer enjoys the prestige that it had in the past. It is being abandoned more and more in favour of more attractive sectors. Some are unqualified Teachers or Teachers who teach subjects in which they are specialized. As their colleagues in the primary education field, they only receive an encouragement and loyalty allowance. Nonetheless their living conditions remain unsatisfactory. Measures should be taken to encourage the secondary school Teachers. - The insufficiency of teaching aids: The Pedagogical Bureaux (BEPES and BEET) one of whose principal assignments is to produce school books and other educational material to supply the secondary schools are no longer able to adequately accomplish this task.