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APNU calls for ‘quality product’ in Education

Apr 18, 2012 News

A Partnership for National Unity (APNU)’s shadow Minister of Education, Amna Ally, has said that there is no doubt that training and development is vital in this sector, and her party feels that Guyana does not necessarily benefit from mass production, thus “we must not lose sight of quality production”.
“I feel very proud when I read in the Budget speech that enrolment for the Associate Degree at the CPCE is approximately nine hundred students…Annually too, the University of Guyana produces approximately five thousand, five hundred students.”
She however urged that the Government not focus on how much fees they can garner but whether they are fulfilling the variables that will give us a quality product.
“Many of our teachers are trained but migrate thereafter because our conditions and salaries are not attractive…why can we not recognize this? Without teachers we cannot have the other professions,” Ally said.
She called on the Minister with responsibility for the sector to ensure that the needs of students and teachers are met while developmental opportunities are made readily available.
“We must ask the question why again in 2011 poor performance is reflected in CSEC.” Ally alluded to the fact that for a number of years the question of literacy and numeracy has been receiving injections for improved performances.
“You will recall some years ago that it started with the BEAMS project, where lots of money was floating about and then there was the end of the funding, consequently, the end of the project.”
According to Ally, twelve of those trainers were retrained and they were working in the regions.
“One would have thought that the Ministry would have been serious to address the literacy and numeracy problem and so they would have given them the support for continuity, instead Mr. Speaker, the Ministry decided that it was going to frustrate these trainers, so they called them together and requested of them to pull (pull as in a raffle) the region they have to be posted to.”
“Mr. Speaker, we have heard the Minister speaking about a Pilot Project to improve English and Mathematics in schools where some $85.7 million has been earmarked to finance this project. Mr. Speaker, this is nothing new.”

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