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Scrapping the Barbados Secondary Schools Entrance Examination (BSSEE) is still on the books, says Ministry of Education Santia Bradshaw. During the virtual 73rd annual Erdiston Teachers Training College orientation ceremony recently, Bradshaw outlined upcoming education reforms, including replacing the BSSEE. “Government intends to transform the education system in Barbados so we can equip our people to be global citizens. The planned reforms will not only be the removal of the …
Education officials are looking to head off potential problems from disengaged students by changing how and what they are taught. In addition, teachers with deficiencies in some subjects will get crash courses to help them as the Ministry of Education undertakes programmes to deal with the fallout from COVID-19 which interrupted teaching and caused cracks in the school system. Yesterday, Director of Education Reform Dr Idamay Denny outlined some of …
Suspense over the date for the Barbados Secondary Schools Entrance Examination has ended, but the Ministry of Education has found that more than half of the students may not be ready to sit the test on July 28. Speaking during a virtual press conference yesterday, Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw explained that the more than one-month extension from the June 20 date was necessary to give students an opportunity to …
BUT leader warns of teacher burnout
Article by March 3, 2021
Teachers are experiencing burnout, as they deal with the mostly new online teaching format over the last several months, poor student attendance and frequent internet connectivity troubles, Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) president Pedro Shepherd has declared.
These were among myriad issues that continue to affect the teaching profession which the Ministry of Education needs to fix if students are to close the learning gap created by the coronavirus pandemic, he told the BUT’s online radio show, Teachers’ Corner.
Shepherd said: “At the beginning of this term, it was raised and discussed, the possibility of having a break for both students and teachers. We are now into week seven, that break was supposed to come in week five. The Minister (Santia Bradshaw) did indicate at the beginning of the term that she would have taken the matter to Cabinet for a decision, we are now in the seventh week