Our Mission

1.  Our mission is to give the students a comprehensive understanding of today’s world using the existing education systems and curriculum.
2. To support all kind of students by giving them excellent education worldwide.
3. To support parents by encouraging them to save money by taking our packages instead of paying for private lessons or private schools.
4. To provide one of a kind online school like no other in terms of quality and coverage.
5. To make learning enjoyable, help students to think, innovate and get creative.
 
Our Vision

1. Meerkats Academy is here to grow a community not a business.
2. Our vision is to make education available to everyone through the internet and outside the physical boundaries of schools.
3. We believe that it is time for a different type of an education revolution worldwide. Our online platform we think is an example of how schools should be like in the future. 
4. We believe that distant education should not only be available for tertiary students but also should be available for school students.
5. We want education to spread equally to every student regardless of the various backgrounds and economic status of people.
6. We are against the idea of private schools and open competitions amongst schools.
7. We are against the idea of giving exams for students and we like to replace exams by research assignments. We believe that the teachers should be learning from students and students should be learning from teachers, hence we think the research assignments should take over the exams. However, we believe exams should remain for mathematics and some topics that requires solving problems.
8. Our future vision is to make students free to learn at their convenience and our role is to protect their motivation to learn. 
 


Meerkats Academy provides educational services for:

1. High Schools Students Worldwide
2. Primary School Students Worldwide (will be under progress mid 2018)
3. Homeschooling students Worldwide
4. Teachers (for planning lessons)
5. Seniors who did not complete schools back when they were young and wish to study and compensate for their lack of education.
6. Disabled students in disability schools and children hospitals Worldwide
7. Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islanders, and disadvantaged groups Worldwide
8. Limited but comprehensive support for Tertiary Students to cover difficult topics in Engineering and accounting.
9. People of the community (short courses)
10. Students under other special circumstances
 


Our Role
We are working on making a full scale online school to support and to provide this service to any student who needs a competitive advantage at school. This website we aim to also become a primary/ main option for those who do not attend schools due to distance, health issues, or to support some schools that do not have enough teachers. We offer the best education at a very low cost and for free to all schools in Africa. Also check the free package section for individual students who want to take any selected package for free.

​· Again, we are focusing on growing a community not a business
​· We work to fulfill your educational needs
· Meerkats Academy is about teamwork
· We believe in generosity and quality of learning.


We believe in Human Right to Education which include:
- Individual rights
- Aims of Education
- Dignity
- Equity
- Non-Discrimination
- Community Participation.

The learning environment that we provide supports the full academic, social and emotional development for every student. We make learning relevant to the modern world by keeping the content transparent, practical, dynamic and comprehensive. We teach our students how to think right and how to make the best decisions.
 


How Meerkats Academy is designed and what students will learn and why?
Meerkats Academy is designed to be a critical support for students and an educational tool that is free from certain requirements often given to schools by governments departments of education, we choose to have balanced criteria and acceptable outcomes to all. We are completely independent and we teach based on the resources we have. However, we follow each curriculum/ syllabus accurately to deliver our lessons purified from any external influence. Our lesson plans are in accordance with what is outlined in each curriculum and based on the teacher’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Our students learn the full capacity of a given curriculum and nothing short of satisfaction. We follow the keys to good teaching and our strategy of teaching is certainly effective.

“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family”. Kofi Annan; UN Secretary-General 1996-2006.

Our Forums
We have a large social Network:

Internally: our quality made forums are available for our students after joining in. In these forums our students can communicate directly with our teachers and other students. These forums allow students to create threads/ posts, comment back to other posts and share their knowledge and understanding. There is also reading materials written by our teachers available to view and download/ under development.

Externally: Meerkats Academy pages on Facebook, twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google+.
 

Meerkats Digital Library
We are in the process of building a full scale digital library open for everyone, when it becomes ready we will put an icon representing the Library on the homepage under the tour section so that students can search and read related studies, do exercises and take quizzes. 

 

Schooling Packages
We made sure that our Schooling packages are affordable to every person in the world regardless of the income and standards of living. We also have these packages for free as a second option but we prefer that you choose the first option as your small contribution will be used to fund the projects we are currently doing, for more info please have a look at our ongoing projects and future projects. Each package will include many subjects and hundreds of lessons. Each Package is focused on the curriculum and Syllabus used in the specified country. Video lessons are uploaded weekly and updates are continuous. Additional subjects and many more lessons will be added to the existing packages with no extra cost and each package will be available to each student for 12 months.
 


Your Contribution to Access the Packages
Australian & New Zealand Package: $40 USD per Year
African Package: $30 USD per Year
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Your username and password will be delivered to your email immediately after you join, please check your junk email box in case  our email ends there

Free Packages for students
Apply for a free package and Meerkats Academy will give this package to you, note maximum waiting period is two months. We want to encourage people and organizations to support our mission by being generous for our cause. Please support our projects to spread education in Africa and the rest of the world.


About the videos
The video lessons are equipped with CC and SD; CC means captions or English subtitles and SD means a secondary option to reduce the video quality if you have a slow internet connection. You can check and test these options with the sample video lessons located at the homepage. Please note that we have not completed the subtitles for the packages yet because it is a long process but it will eventually be done. If we receive a number of requests from disabled students then we will deliver it accordingly.



What we Teach?

• Mathematics
• Science
• English
• Geography
• Chemistry
• Physics
• Biology.
• More subjects are under consideration after we complete all these seven main subjects listed above.

 
What we do NOT Teach 

• Topics that contradicts cultural values
• We do not teach religions given that we respect people's faiths
• We do not teach explicit human sexual content 
   
   

Our Strategy of Teaching

• Our strategy of teaching is focused on the quality of teaching as a priority.
• We use the best teaching method i.e. we believe the traditional way of teaching is the right way to go.
• We do NOT use projectors or PowerPoint because the teachers believe that a Whiteboard and themselves visible on each video lesson is the best way to keep the students engaged in our lessons.
• Each lesson is resembles a private lesson where the teacher got no audience around except the viewer.
• The lessons are recorded in a professional studio and we have a team of five studio professionals whom work on recording the lessons and producing the videos.
• We have a team of more than twelve teachers and adding. 

 

How we Teach?

Our qualified and talented teachers have experience in observing their students. Your feedback is important to us as we in return will improve your experience.  By looking at the cameras the teachers are looking directly at the student. It’s not about them that these lessons been made but it is about you the student. Our teachers have passion for teaching as well as purpose to deliver education. They give you much more than what you need to achieve the highest grades at school. Some topics are difficult to some students, but our teachers always make them clear and vibrant to the minds of our students.
 
The teachers teach at a personal level so your level as a student and their level is the same. The teachers raise some questions to the students during the lessons to engage and make them feel involved in the lesson. For example, a teacher asks you the viewer the following “so what are we going to do with the nuclear wastes? Should we put them under the bed or under the chair?! Pause a little… the answer is no. pause again… we need to keep them away from people reach…”. By using this method in this way or in similar ways we encourage our students to think and consider so they do not just take the answers without a thought.

Also in most lessons the teachers remind the students of the previous lesson or the previous topics and by the end of the lesson they often mention what the next lesson will be about. This way the teachers can repeat a point that has been mentioned to the student more than twice so that the first time is heard, the second is recognized and the third is learnt. At some instances a teacher might ask a question or give out a comment or draw a diagram then pause a little and gives a hint to allow the students to think and realize the next step. Our students can communicate and teach each other in our forums while the teachers get involved. Every teacher has his/her own approach in giving the lessons and we do not dictate or superimpose a certain approach to be followed by our teachers. In fact, our teachers are free to choose any suitable approach to use to any given topic.
 

How do we know if we are doing it well?
Our teachers are creative and always express their thoughts and make the students responsive. They can express their knowledge and create sparks in their students minds to learn with ease. Our teachers are caring in presenting each lesson and that what makes them stand out. Being close to the cameras they give the students a sensation of being close to them physically and emotionally.
 

 

Meet Our Teachers

              
                                                                                                                     Studio Supervisor Mr. John              Teachers Coordinator Mrs. Margret

                                               Video Production Team                                                            

Our Teachers

Mrs Margret Nalyaka– Team Leader
Mr. Luke Mulunda - Mathematics Grade 7 and 8, Form 1
Mrs. Lydia Mukangula - Mathematics Grade 7, Form 1
Mrs. Juliah Wangui –various topics of physics for Science for Grades 8,9,10 (Forms 2,3,4)
Mr. Joseph Juma – various topics of ecology and health for Science grade 7 and 8– Form 1
Mr Wambasi Benard – Science Grade 8 and various chemistry topics for grade 7 and 9, – Forms 1, 2, 3.
Mr Wambete Isaiah –  various biology topics for Science grade 9 – Form 3
Mr. Juma Moses – various topics in natural science, geology, astronomy for Grade 7, 8 and 9- Forms 1,2, 3
Mr. Kiprono Philemon – Mathematics Grade 9 – Form 3
Mr. Bokoli Jacob – Mathematics Grade 10 – Form 4  
Mr. Namonyo Isaac - Mathematics Grade 9 - Form 3
Mrs  Angela Yego - Mathematics Grade 8 - Form 2
Mr.Oduor William - Mathematics Grade 10 - Form 4
 


Lessons and Teachers Capabilities

• Our Teachers can demonstrate the content with ease so our students can enjoy learning. Our experienced teachers teach our students at private school’s level
• Our teachers speak perfect English and their accent is smooth and beautiful
• We admire our teachers because they have the qualities that make them good teachers.
• Our teachers feel privileged and honored to take part in our projects since the scale and scope of these projects are huge and equally important.
• We have Serious Teachers whom are keen to benefit students

Meerkats Academy supplies our students with high quality lessons and continues to expand. Our lessons have the following features:

1. Each Lesson is comprehensive and covers all the topic boundaries
2. We will soon include science Lab experiments demonstrations
3. We provide revisions and go through exam papers
4. Our lessons are designed to appear in the form of one teacher to one Student. This method gives a sense of one to one experience for each student. Our teachers were performing in a studio with no students around so that each student can get a feeling that these lessons are private lessons exclusively to each one of them.
5. Our lessons covers how much our students are expected to know about the designated chapters. They give sufficient coverage to give our students a greater advantage than other students.
6. If you have a slow internet connection it will not be a problem. Our video lessons have the optional tools to reduce the quality of the videos to suit your internet speed. If you reduce the video quality to save data (bundles) or to suit your internet speed you          will be STILL able to watch the lessons clearly.
7. A second video optional tool is CC captions. Using this optional tool, you can read subtitles on the videos if you have a disability of hearing.
8. We are here to listen to your feedback, we act on it to develop and improve the quality of learning through your collaboration.
 

Technology

• We use the best web hosting company in the world
• We maintain the website through a respectful web design company with professional web designers and developers.
• We use the highest technological and fastest servers in the world to make sure you stream the videos without any lags
• We use high security to protect your privacy of information
• We use the highest studio recording technology to produce top quality video lessons

 
 

Current and Ongoing Projects

1.      Project Name: Australia and New Zealand 7-10, Reference Number: 600  
2.     Project Name: Australia and New Zealand 11&12, Reference Number: 601
         Coverage: Grades 11 and 12 – Australia (Australian Curriculum)
         -  Subjects covered: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology. We will expand to more subjects.
         - Progress: Not yet started

3.      Project Name: KENYA, Reference Number 700                Coverage: Grades 7 to 12 (Forms 1 to 6) – AFRICA


We will then move to more projects which we will announce after due time 



Projects goals and objectives
1. To give students a comprehensive coverage of Curriculum and Syllabus
2. To develop new learning strategies and build stronger equity to expand this education platform 
3. To make the Curriculum relevant to the modern world.
4. To use the highest education standards available as our guideline.
5. To collaborate with International organizations and Future partners
6. To gain enough funding to expand to more projects
7. To eliminate education inequalities in Africa. According to the former Nigerian president Mr. Olusegun Obasanjo “Africa’s future is in the hands of women. Equal education for girls, at all three education levels, is the critical issue”
8. To give an equal chance for African students and students beyond Africa to obtain quality education
9. To support economic growth for African countries, fuel innovation and create jobs through education
10. To equip students with knowledge and skills through learning to escape from poverty and add stability to their lives
11. To build a large digital library and make it public on this website to help students to expand their knowledge through study and research
12. To help the students to accumulate the 21st century skills in literacy and numeracy
13. To get Meerkats academy recognized by the Africa governments as an online school and get these students who cannot afford to go to school to be able to access the website in libraries and take exams at schools to pass to the following year of study. 
 

Resources

• Expertise
• Teachers Skills
• Information
• Finance
• Management
• Time
• External Support

Special courses
Meerkats Academy will add special and relevant courses to support the fluidity of each curriculum and make them match the fluidity of relevant modern knowledge demands.  These courses will be available separately and we will focus on making education transparent to the moderneveryday living. These courses include Human Rights, Ethics and manners, Building Character, Practical Philosophy, Self-defense, democracy, freedom of speech and Cooking Real food.

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