As schooling programs throughout the Caribbean grapple with challenges of inequality and outdated approaches, key regional stakeholders will decide strategies for remodeling the supply of schooling throughout the Caribbean on the Regional Symposium and Coverage Dialogue on Reworking Training, scheduled for October 2 to 4, 2024, on the Ritz-Carlton Resort within the Cayman Islands.
Hosted by the Caribbean Growth Financial institution (CDB/the Financial institution), in collaboration with the Caribbean Group (CARICOM) Secretariat, the Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) Fee, and The College of the West Indies, the occasion will goal Ministers of Training, educators, policymakers, youth, academics, civil society organisations, and social growth entities.
With over 150 people anticipated to take part, the Regional Symposium and Coverage Dialogue on Reworking Training will discover methods for reimagining educating practices, increasing entry to schooling, and fostering modern, efficient management for the educating and coaching sector. The symposium will concentrate on 5 thematic areas, reflecting priorities recognized on the 2022 World Reworking Training Summit. These themes embody inclusive, equitable, protected, and wholesome colleges; studying and abilities for all times, work, and sustainable growth; academics, educating, and the educating career; digital studying and transformation; and financing schooling.
Discussions will centre on management transformation, revamping educating and studying strategies, and increasing attain. The three days of conferences will culminate within the growth of a consensus-driven roadmap for schooling transformation—the Agenda for Motion. This doc will function the muse for sustained efforts to enhance instructional outcomes throughout the area.
CARICOM Secretary-Normal, Carla Bennett, mentioned “The CARICOM Secretariat is happy to associate on this crucial challenge of remodeling schooling within the Area. Stakeholder participation in schooling is not only the objective of transformation, however the principal methodology. We underscore the worth of a whole-of-society method to schooling transformation.”
Director Normal of the OECS Fee, His Excellency Dr. Didacus Jules, mentioned: “Over the previous 40 years, efforts to rework Caribbean schooling have seen restricted success, failing to essentially reshape the system. From July to September 2024, Google reported 315,000 articles on the ‘Caribbean Training Disaster,’ reflecting widespread concern. This convention is a well timed alternative to confront this disaster and chart a decisive path towards rethinking and remodeling Caribbean schooling.”
CDB Performing President, Isaac Solomon, famous that the symposium aligns with the United Nations’ Reworking Training Agenda, which seeks to speed up progress in direction of Sustainable Growth Aim 4: inclusive, equitable, and high quality schooling for all.
“CDB is dedicated to advancing schooling as a cornerstone of regional growth. This symposium represents a pivotal second for us to handle the crucial challenges going through our schooling programs and to drive transformative change. By bringing collectively key stakeholders, we purpose to craft actionable methods that may guarantee our schooling programs are extra inclusive, equitable, and ready for the longer term,” Solomon mentioned.
The Symposium is the primary in a collection of actions to be carried out in October by CDB and growth establishments beneath the Reworking Training thrust.
