Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has described a meeting held with principals and senior teachers of primary schools in Dominica last week as constructive and “very positive”.
A series of consultations concerning educational reform were held at the State House Conference Centre.
“We met with principals and senior teachers of all the primary schools in Dominica at 10:30 AM. That went on until about 1:30 PM,” he said. “It was a very constructive engagement, very positive suggestions coming out from them in respect to what we believe the education reform should look like and the good thing is there is agreement that the system needs to change a bit.”
He continued, “From 2:30 PM we met with representatives of the PTAs across the country, and that itself was also very constructive.”
According to him, there is a clear positive view amongst involved parties that changes are necessary.
“They made suggestions of what they believe those changes should comprise of and the next step is to have a national symposium where we invite a wide cross-section of stakeholders and, of course, [put] a national team to look at how we fashion that reform that will take effect in September of 2025,” Skerrit explained.
He went on to add that reform is an evolving process so the country will not be able to implement every aspect of what is being proposed in September. However, he added, the most important thing is for us to start.
The prime minister pointed out that the world has changed dramatically.
“There are many more opportunities, there are many more challenges, but the system that we have was tailored for a particular point in time [and] that point in time has long gone,” he emphasized.
This, he said, is not a challenge or concern exclusive to Dominica; it is a regional and international challenge, where countries are talking about reforming their system to make it more responsive and adapting it to the present challenges of the world.
Now that we have Chinese history complete with a Confucius classroom at our one college, we are all hopeful that one day we will at the very least have African history added to our high schools. It is imperative.
Because of African history knowledge we are now starting to reclaim a whole continent from foreigners and invaders, which is why we are here the poorest. 3 going on 5 countries so far free. Time to stand up with education.
Wasn’t this LAZY guy called Skerrit an English teacher?
You are reporting to people, please do so with clarity mister LAZY.
It’s a long piece of emptiness.
If it was a composition you would have failed with 15%.
Stop grinning. Do your work, or can you!
MEME
It would have been good to hear what some of the suggestions were. I am.not a bit wiser after reading this surfaced article. It did not give me any thing to think about.
very borderline.