{"id":128420,"date":"2014-11-26T11:41:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T15:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=128420"},"modified":"2014-11-26T11:41:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T15:41:50","slug":"education-policy-creating-environment-enable-growth-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/features\/commentary\/education-policy-creating-environment-enable-growth-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Education Policy- Creating The Environment To Enable Growth (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128122\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128122\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128122\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Anthony-LeBlanc.jpg\" alt=\"Anthony Leblanc\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Leblanc<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>Ending The Antagonism toward CXC CAPE and The University of the West Indies.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One may recall former Minister of Education Vince Henderson being very undiplomatically antagonistic towards both The UWI and CXC CAPE program.<\/p>\n<p>One would have thought that those who promote Caribbean integration would have embraced and harness these two existing systems and icons of excellence in the region (CXC and The UWI) in order to create a formidable State College.\u00a0\u00a0 Alas, the logic of the shallow and arrogant confounds the wisdom itself!<\/p>\n<p>It is fitting to quote a 26<sup>th<\/sup> August 2010 article on DNO which provides evidence of CAPE being recommended by our own senior education technocrat 11 years ago!<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMax Andrew (May, 2003) a Senior Education Planner in the Ministry of Education, was delegated to provide a rationale for the introduction of CAPE at the State College. Following Andrew\u2019s conclusions and recommendations he stated<strong>:\u00a0 \u2018It is therefore being recommended that a policy decision be made to adopt CAPE as part of the Curriculum of the Dominica State College.\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In addition he emphasized that: <strong>\u2018There is absolutely no reason why CAPE cannot be taught together with the Associate Degree (AD) Programme\u2019.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>From September 2011, DSC has, with varying degrees of reluctance, accommodated some of our bright students with a supplemental GCE A\u2019Level programme in the afternoons from about 4:30 to 6:30 pm weekdays, and some laboratory practice on Saturdays.\u00a0 This is at tremendous extra cost to parents and students:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There is a financial burden on parents for tuition above and higher than that of normal tuition costs at the college,<\/li>\n<li>The hours during which the programme is accommodated is both\n<ul>\n<li>hard on students who have completed a whole day of lectures for the associate degree (AD) programme, and<\/li>\n<li>very inconvenient for students living out of the greater Roseau area and therefore shuts \u201ccountry\u201d students out of a vital education privilege.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is a tremendous resistance by the DSC administration to more fully streamline the DSC AD and A\u2019 Level programmes.\u00a0\u00a0 Given the 70-80% commonality of content, there is no reason why the two programmes (AD &amp; A\u2019 Level) cannot be taught fully in the day with well managed options to accommodate more students, provide greater efficiency for DCS itself, and significantly reduce cost to parents. \u00a0\u00a0There is no reason why CAPE is not taken on board instead of GCE.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, for whatever motive, the politicians sitting in government, against the technical recommendations from the Ministry of Education, are placing our many Dominican young people at a disadvantage to the rest of the Caribbean youths by depriving them of the CXC CAPE or GCE A\u2019 Level experience.<\/p>\n<p>When one undertakes a financial comparison between studying at The UWI and the USA, or even China for that matter, the absurdity that surrounds this antagonism towards Caribbean institutions is incomprehensible.<\/p>\n<p>The full cost, tuition and living expenses of undertaking an engineering education at UWI St Augustine is about US$13,300.00 annually even if the government does not pay the economic costs!\u00a0 With economic cost paid, Engineering is US $ 11,800.00 annually, Medicine is US $34,600.00 and all other faculties US $ 10,900.00.\u00a0 \u00a0Say EC $95,000.00 for a 3 year engineering programme with economic fee paid, and EC$ 105,000.00 if the government defaults as is now the case.<\/p>\n<p>DNO\u2019s article \u201c<em>Over 130 Dominican students benefit from Chinese scholarships\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0of 22<sup>nd<\/sup> September 2014 quotes Mrs Justina Charles as saying that the cost of educating 135 Dominicans in China is $19,000,000.00.\u00a0\u00a0 This is EC$ 140,700.00 (US $ 51,800) per student, <strong><em>over 45% more than what it costs at The UWI to complete a similar course!<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 This does not include all the extra funds sent to the student by family.<\/p>\n<p>The President of DSC highlights, on DSC\u2019s website, about four US colleges with which \u201c<em>the College currently has articulation and transfer agreements, [viz] the State University of NY in Plattsburgh, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, Grambling State University, Wheelock College in Boston Massachusetts\u201d.<\/em>\u00a0 The average annual cost<em> for tuition only<\/em> for these colleges is US $20,500.00 and average total annual cost being US $ 35,300.00.\u00a0\u00a0 <strong><em>In other words, it costs about the same to do a three year programme at The UWI as it costs for one year at an average US university or college of average repute!<\/em><\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0Also, the cost to do medicine at UWI is the same to do social sciences at the average US college promoted by DSC! By comparison, highly sought after US universities like Cornelland MIT on the average cost annually about US $61,000.00.<\/p>\n<p>The UWI \u00a0Online programmes on The UWI Open Campus is even more affordable, but sadly not promoted by our state institution or government!<\/p>\n<p>One can definitely fault The UWI for not adequately marketing itself.\u00a0 But how can our government and the government owned and operated Dominica State College be antagonistic to Caribbean Educational Institutions of higher education of good repute?<\/p>\n<p>It is rather unfortunate that the Dominica State College conspicuously promotes US universities while it is either noticeably silent about or antagonistic towards The UWI, The University of Technology (UTEC) in Jamaica or any other Caribbean institution of repute!\u00a0 It is hope that, at the policy-making level in this country, we will have grown to sufficiently in maturity to understand that this seemly antagonistic attitude toward these prestigious institutions only hurt our county. \u00a0\u00a0The UWI and CXC CAPE continue to grow in excellence without us!<\/p>\n<p>One only has to understand the amount of foreign exchange being systematically and deliberately channelled out of the region to appreciate the level of betrayal.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>But this pales when one considers how our poor struggling parents are enticed to spend 200% to 300% more for a US university education that is generally not superior or equal to that of The UWI<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The way to the next level in tertiary education is to forge better links with good quality Caribbean Institutions in order to grow confidence in the DSC, reduce the cost of university education to the populace, and to give our young people a chance to develop linkages and network with future regional leaders for a great economic union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ending The Antagonism toward CXC CAPE and The University of the West Indies. 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