The Education Transformation and Oversight Committee, ETOC, is hailing as good news, a report that action is being taken on 129 short-term measures intended to improve the education sector.
That’s the word from the Chairman of ETOC, Dr. Adrian Stokes. Dr. Stokes was speaking on Thursday at ETOC’s quarterly media briefing.
Daina Davy reports.
The measures are contained in the report produced by the Professor Orlando Patterson-chaired Jamaica Education Transformation Commission.
The ETOC chairman says of the 136 measures on which work began, seven have been finalised, while good progress is being made in the other areas.
He says among the seven completed initiatives is the process to publish reports on school’s finances.
Among the measures on which progress still lags is the Jamaica Teaching Council Bill.
The Patterson report was published in 2021. It proposed 365 measures to address gaps in the country’s education system. The recommendations are being implemented over an eight-year period, 2023-to-2031, with ETOC monitoring the process.
In the meantime, Education Minister Fayval Williams says the Jamaica Teaching Council Bill is lagging because of several inputs which have come out of an extensive process of consultation.
Minister Williams says given the significance of the Bill, broad stakeholder engagement was imperative.
Fayval Williams, education minister. She was speaking on Thursday at the Education Transformation and Oversight Committee’s quarterly press conference.
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