EDITOR’S NOTE: Just past mid-March, #eduCaribbean featured political interventions in Caribbean education in a two-part series, starting in our edition 2021-03-25. We do the same in a this newsletter, but in a single edition. Two Caribbean countries are covered, namely Jamaica and Haiti. See our Twitter feed for more.
Our headline, taken from the Jamaica Gleaner, reads: “Cabinet Approves Contracts Valued at $1.25B For Projects in Education Sector”. Projects include provision of primary level textbooks, data processing for the Primary Exit Profile (PEP), and construction works at Kingston College (KC) and the College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE).
More than 125,000 tablets will be issued by the end of the school year to students in Jamaica, under the Government’s Tablets in Schools Programme. And, Queen’s Counsel — Walter Scott — has suggested strategies that can be adopted by the education sector to counter the learning gaps created by the pandemic.
In Haiti, the Ministry of National Education will relocate at least 30 official examination centres that are in areas of armed conflict for the safety of candidates. And finally, the Public University of Navarre in Spain and the State University of Haiti are to collaborate to train Haitian teachers and university staff in Spain.