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Building More Elite Boys' Schools Not A Viable Solution - Smith
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM
A suggestion, made by anthropologist Dr Herbert Gayle, calling for more elite boys' schools to be built, has largely been met with disapproval from persons within the education sector. The Gleaner reached out to several persons to gauge their views on the Gayle's recommendation, which came out of a study he conducted to look at the issue of gender parity at the University of the West Indies.Dr Maurice Smith, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, pointed out that the financial constraints of the Government makes the suggestion infeasible.
"The suggestion is certainly not viable from the perspective of available financial resources to do so from the public purse. However, the Government welcomes support in this regard from private sources," he said, in an email response.
Vice-Principal at Munro College, Alcia Morgan Bromfield, said building additional single-sex schools for males will not effectively close the gap between the number of males and females matriculating to university. According to Morgan Bromfield, "If the idea of building additional elite boys' schools is to create parity between the number for single-sex schools for girls and those for boys, then that idea can be accepted, but I don't see where it would solve the education crisis we currently face with the precipitous slide in boys' academic achievement nor the higher educational pursuits of our boys."
Pointing to the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) examinations rankings, she argued that the seven elite all-boys schools which currently exist still lag behind the elite all-girls and co-ed schools.
None of them apparently have the slightest idea about a good solution to this massive development problem Building More Elite Boys' Schools Not A Viable Solution - Smith
Published:Wednesday | December 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM
A suggestion, made by anthropologist Dr Herbert Gayle, calling for more elite boys' schools to be built, has largely been met with disapproval from persons within the education sector. The Gleaner reached out to several persons to gauge their views on the Gayle's recommendation, which came out of a study he conducted to look at the issue of gender parity at the University of the West Indies.Dr Maurice Smith, permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, pointed out that the financial constraints of the Government makes the suggestion infeasible.
"The suggestion is certainly not viable from the perspective of available financial resources to do so from the public purse. However, the Government welcomes support in this regard from private sources," he said, in an email response.
Vice-Principal at Munro College, Alcia Morgan Bromfield, said building additional single-sex schools for males will not effectively close the gap between the number of males and females matriculating to university. According to Morgan Bromfield, "If the idea of building additional elite boys' schools is to create parity between the number for single-sex schools for girls and those for boys, then that idea can be accepted, but I don't see where it would solve the education crisis we currently face with the precipitous slide in boys' academic achievement nor the higher educational pursuits of our boys."
Pointing to the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) examinations rankings, she argued that the seven elite all-boys schools which currently exist still lag behind the elite all-girls and co-ed schools.
