EDITOR’S NOTE: Earlier this week, #eduCaribbean featured Guyana in our edition 2021-06-07. We now feature Jamaica for the first time in our newsletter. Three of our five article cover government interventions, and the remaining articles are on opportunities and threats to the educational system. As usual, additional content can be found in our Twitter feed.
Our headline, taken from the Jamaica Observer, reads: “$357-M Slavery Money Belongs To Jamaica!’. Shirley-Anne Somerville — Scotland’s new Education Secretary — is being pressured to return a north-east education fund of £1.7-million ($357 million) to Jamaica, after the money was found to be proceeds from the slave trade.
Otherwise, a World Bank study has concluded that Jamaica’s expenditure on education is within international norms and compares favourably with that of several other regional countries. Jamaica has also signed an agreement with Cuba to extend bilateral cooperation between themselves, in education.
Having successfully completed a pilot literacy programme for parents in 2017, the government is now extending it to six other parishes in Jamaica. Nevertheless, education stakeholders advise that the country should learn from the significant learning loss that has occured over the past year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic .
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