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\"\"<\/a>CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – A senior official of the St Lucia-based Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat has described the problem of trained teachers migrating from the region as a serious state of affairs.<\/p>\n

Head of OECS Reform, Marcus Albertine, stressed the point, noting that a study of teachers in the nine-country OECS revealed that the attrition rate is as high as seven per cent in some countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a serious state of affairs when you have seven per cent, especially of your qualified staff, leaving to go and practice elsewhere in a situation where resources are so scarce,\u201d Albertine said at a just-ended two-day meeting of regional education officials here.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have to get serious about doing everything we can to retain the teachers we have trained,\u201d he said, emphasising that there are constraints in identifying resources to continuously train teachers.<\/p>\n

Registrar of the Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), Dr Didicus Jules, agreed that the virtual haemorrhaging of teachers from the Eastern Caribbean to developed countries was a matter worthy of serious attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople do not migrate simply because they want to leave their country, but they leave to take up better opportunities abroad and it is very difficult for government ministries to think of competing with the kind of salaries that are being offered in these more developed destinations,\u201d Jules said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it requires some creative thinking and rethinking of the kinds of policies that can be put in place to achieve a win-win situation on both sides, that will allow for teachers to go but come back to continue making a contribution to education in their respective countries,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The meeting was called for officials to produce a document outlining a plan of action to retain teachers, many of whom have been seeking more lucrative opportunities in the United Kingdom and the United States.<\/p>\n

The document is intended to address the quality issues currently affecting education in the sub-region, including matters of recruitment, professional development, and conditions of service. The expectation is that it would be adjusted to the individual circumstances of each country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CASTRIES, St Lucia, CMC – A senior official of the St Lucia-based Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Secretariat has described the problem of trained teachers migrating from the region as a serious state of affairs. 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