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Regional Conference on Development of Education Being Planned

Submitted by Althea on Jul 6, 2015 02:00 am

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Caribbean leaders have endorsed a three-day meeting to discuss the development of education in the region.

Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell said the Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Sir Hilary Beckles had made a major presentation to regional leaders on education during their annual summit that ended here over the weekend.

“We talking about leveraging our knowledge regionally and internationally, and not in just one area,” he said, adding that his regional colleagues “were extremely impressed”.

Didacus Jules

This policy paper seeks to address issues in BASIC EDUCATION defined as the continuum of education provision from early childhood to primary to secondary education (incorporating also technical and vocational education). Too often studies of this nature have focused on primary and secondary education and ignored the vital importance of pre-primary or early childhood education in laying the foundation for achievement in later years. Additionally, the pace of globalisation and the impact of the technological revolution have made higher education a developmental imperative and have made it necessary to redefine basic education as inclusive of secondary education. The paper therefore treats basic education as the new minimum but holistic educational standard that the region is expected to deliver to its citizens.

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Peter-John Gordon
January 1, 2012

This exercise will not seek to address the issue of financing the central administrative cost of the education system, i.e. the cost of running the Ministry of Education. We make no attempt to cost the transition from where we are to where we want to be. What we do is to construct what we perceive to be a reasonable school system and ask ourselves what it would cost to maintain such a system; we therefore jump immediately to the desired configuration.

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