83 - The deficiency of the educational and administrative supervision: The educational and administrative supervision of the secondary schools, in particular the communal colleges distributed throughout the national territory has a lot of shortcomings. The deterioration of the social and political climate in certain schools, sequel to the crisis which the country has experienced greatly disturbed the supervision of the pupils. This is manifested in the authority crisis, the easy going attitudes and general indiscipline. - A low educational output All these aforementioned challenges contribute to the lowering of the quality of education at the secondary level whereas deficiencies had already been observed at the primary level. - The disproportion between the general training and technical training: The rapid increase of the network of secondary schools through the establishment of communal colleges took place solely in favour of general education. - The problems of private schools in the Burundian education system: The current situation of private schools is characterized by a number of challenges that need to be addressed: - Certain private school developers do not respect the law regarding the opening; - Most of these schools operate in buildings which are inappropriate for education; - Almost 80% of the teachers in the private schools are temporary teachers who work in the public schools and this prevents them from providing a satisfactory output; - The teaching aids are insufficient, - The recruitment and enrolment of the pupils appear to be anarchic, which necessarily influences the education quality. - The problem of the costs and financing of secondary education: Secondary education incurs high costs for the State. The funds allocated to this level of education are largely swallowed by staff salaries and the upkeep of the boarding pupils. Despite this, the State’s contribution, supplemented by the parents’ payments which though low, cannot cover the requirements at this level.