The Coalition for Education Reform has released a second report on the state of education here in The Bahamas. This report focuses on schools here in Nassau and the test results for the BGCSE English and Maths examinations.
Click here… for a PDF of the Coalition’s press release.
My understanding is that the Minister of Education in the last PLP administration nor the current FNM administration has met with the Coalition to discuss their findings…a sad commentary.
What is it going to take for The Bahamas Government and the Educational establishment to stop making excuses and provide Bahamian children with the education they deserve?
For a PDF of the complete report at The Bahamas Employers Confederations web site click here…
Maybe with enough publicity our officials will be so embarrassed by these results that they will finally do something?
Hi Rick,
It strikes me that our successive administrations are not particularly embarrassed by anything, least of all their own behaviour never mind any administrative failure.
Our educational fiasco should be at the head of the fiasco fixing line but unfortunately will just take a number like all else.
How about this idea-
C.O.B. should start civil service training with emphasis on rules and regulations of their department/ministry of interest.
Along with customer service training of course.
Perhaps this should be mandatory for prospective ministers also? Along with “thou shalt not tread on thy P.S.”? or “meddle not in matters of admin”?
And not to forget the youth, try some constitutional study, so at least they might know the law of the land, for when we finally get around to reinstating it.
For a country once ruled by the clerks of the world, we sure have slipped into a free for all.
I’m afraid we have lost the collective will to hold any public servant accountable, because we are not familiar enough ourselves with what we should be holding them accountable to.
Which of course makes the few of us who do speak out an abberation, as opposed to the norm.