Tag: Primary School Achievement Certificate

If the Programme was perhaps designed more as a general orientation guide of government intents and priorities, it might, despite some shortcomings, have achieved its objective

By Teeluck Bhuwanee

Interview: Dr Teeluck Bhuwanee, Educationist

2020 Education

Rather than sweep the problem under the carpet and treat it as a normal state of affairs, it is time we recognize this problem as a national failure

Forceful imposition to meet political deadlines, inherent elitism and double-standards have been the unfortunate hallmarks of the Minister’s NYS reforms

Education

The Nine-Year Schooling reform is neither the panacea it was sold to be nor do the outcomes justify the upheaval it has engineered

All classes of society are feeling the continuous decline of the country and their discontent is aptly reflected in the victory of Arvin Boolell — By Sada Reddi

Better standards of health and education are maintained in a state system when the middle class makes use of the system

Education Reform End-of-year secondary school intake process, procedures and potential challenges will constitute the first real test of the NYS pudding

The Nine Year Schooling (NYS) umbrella concept regroups several individual measures, which are intended collectively to reduce examination pressures, reduce stress and workload, reduce private tuition, provide more

With the start of second trimester this week, children and students are back to their schools.

The population should not be ambushed into a “fait accompli” by a step-wise innocuous-looking Reform approach that could ultimately jeopardise progress achieved over decades Society owes it to

Ask the wrong questions and you are unlikely, save by sheer accident, to reach the right answers. It is not too late to realise the impasse and inject