for berea district some copies of a questionnaire were distributed by the researcher to few schools while a certain portion of the copies of the questionnaire were completed by berea primary teachers who converged at lce in maseru for contact sessions for parttime bed primary programme lastly it must also be noted that some of maseru primary teachers who participated in this study were bed parttime students who had also converged at lce for midterm contact sessions biographical information was sought in section i of the questionnaire these included information on the names of districts schools age groups and qualifications the numbers of male and female teachers as well as the gender of principals and the deputy principals were sought and used for validation of the existing statistical data in respect of feminisation of the teaching profession in lesotho primary schools the names of individual schools are not used in analysis of the data for confidentiality