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....plus give tertiary science students more subsidies.
i.e. Produce Less Yappers & More Makers
It’s not rocket science; let’s do the math!
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 6 Comments
It was not encouraging to learn, as reported in yesterday’s edition of this newspaper, that 494 maths and science teachers exited from the public education sector for jobs mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Mr Thwaites in a recent speech said: “We lost a great number of good math and science teachers and it has been a blow to the education system. This has happened for a number of reasons, but an even greater issue at hand is the fact that we risk losing many more.”
Indeed, we are already seeing the turbidity in the education system as, while the rest of the world is literally controlled and run by technological advancements, the number of Jamaican students registering for subjects in the sciences in the 2015 Caribbean Examination Council exams has decreased, and so too the pass percentage figures.
i.e. Produce Less Yappers & More Makers
It’s not rocket science; let’s do the math!
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 6 Comments
It was not encouraging to learn, as reported in yesterday’s edition of this newspaper, that 494 maths and science teachers exited from the public education sector for jobs mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.
Mr Thwaites in a recent speech said: “We lost a great number of good math and science teachers and it has been a blow to the education system. This has happened for a number of reasons, but an even greater issue at hand is the fact that we risk losing many more.”
Indeed, we are already seeing the turbidity in the education system as, while the rest of the world is literally controlled and run by technological advancements, the number of Jamaican students registering for subjects in the sciences in the 2015 Caribbean Examination Council exams has decreased, and so too the pass percentage figures.
