Cuba has supplied to produce academics to Jamaica amid mass instructor resignations affecting the nation’s faculties.
Cuba’s Ambassador to Jamaica, Fermin Quinones Sanchez, has acknowledged that Cuba is ready to offer help if the Jamaican authorities seeks help on this regard.
“There isn’t a limitation from Cuba’s aspect about any request that will be made by the Jamaican Authorities and the Ministry of Schooling to proceed supporting the training sector,” the diplomat mentioned.
There are over 100 Cuban academics within the Jamaica college system most of whom train Spanish, however the diplomat mentioned his nation can supply academics within the sciences in addition to in coping with kids with particular wants.
“We talked about a while in the past to the Jamaican authorities of the chance to increase the cooperation of the bilateral settlement to deal with some particular wants of kids with sure disabilities that want some sort of help,” the ambassador mentioned in an interview with the Jamaica Observer Newspaper.
He added that Cuba has been creating particular wants expertise over many, a few years, and now we now have academics who’re effectively ready to work with kids with particular wants.
“Cuba is able to take part in such a program if it’s the request, in fact, by the Jamaican authorities,” Ambassador Sanchez mentioned.
Instructor mind drain
Jamaica has been dealing with challenges with instructor shortages in sure topic areas and areas lately.
These shortages had been notably notable in topics like arithmetic and the sciences, in addition to in rural and underserved areas of the nation. Components contributing to those shortages included low instructor salaries, restricted entry to skilled growth alternatives, and migration of certified academics to different nations in search of higher pay and dealing circumstances.
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Over 1,000 academics have left the system this semester within the quest for extra profitable jobs in nations like america, the UK and the Center East.
Schooling Minister Fayval Williams was quoted in a ministry assertion final week, as saying that sudden resignation of scores of academics and the employment of latest academics at quick discover, the ministry needed to “implement new mechanisms to make sure that new academics are paid within the month of September.
“Underneath regular circumstances, for a instructor to be paid in a specific month, the employment paperwork have to be submitted by the final working day of the earlier month. For instance, to be paid in September, all related employment paperwork have to be submitted to the ministry by the final working day within the month of August.
“Nonetheless, provided that most of the new academics had been employed this month [September], the ministry prolonged the deadline for submission to September 12 and deployed the accounting employees to work time beyond regulation and on weekends to course of the submissions.
The assertion from the training ministry mentioned 1,155 academics had joined the sector in time for the brand new college 12 months.
