Gov’t seeking new school inspector chief
(CNS): After three years as the director of the Office of Education Standards, Peter Carpenter will be leaving the job at the end of this year, triggering the hunt for a new chief school inspector. Officials have now confirmed that Carpenter is leaving for personal reasons and when he goes in late December 2020, he will have overseen the inspection of every education institution in the Cayman Islands.
Carpenter said in a release about his departure that the OES will also “have published over 80 individual school reports as well as a number of strategic reviews regarding government and private schools. I believe that the inspections and the reports have helped support and guide our colleagues in schools, both government and private.”
He added, “I appreciate the positive attitude towards inspection that has been demonstrated by so many of the teachers and school leaders across Cayman and the support that has been provided by the government and the Portfolio of the Civil Service. I believe there has been an improvement in educational standards over the last three years. I have full confidence that this will continue.”
Gloria McField-Nixon, the chief officer of the Portfolio of the Civil Service, noted that the OES established an inspection framework and provided baseline results for all education centres.
“This body of work provides a blueprint for raising educational outcomes across the Cayman Islands,” she said. “Mr Carpenter has been a driving force in the OES’s success and he has steadily built a team which will carry on this important work.”
Carpenter also completed the new inspection framework, Successful Schools And Achieving Students 2. This will come into use next year and offers an ambitious direction and pace for ongoing improvement, officials said
McField-Nixon said a recruitment campaign has already kicked off to fill the post and applications are open until Sunday, 25 October.
Category: Education, Local News
Funny how if his contract runs out in December he is already off island. No doubt personal reasons – like not being invited to renew because he was a little too transparent on how appalling the public schools performance is? Isn’t that what happens to the Auditor General post each time it comes up for renewal?
He must have stepped on lots of toes. We will see if giving teachers a big, big raise will have any difference on getting them to do a better job. If one has good work ethics , they have it and will perform their duties to the fullest, but if they have don’t care work ethics , no amount of money will change it.
Remember it was only teachers who got the big, big raise. Assistant teachers make up half of the teaching staff, do as much work, make much less, and…no raise.
Was there too much sensitivity to the poor ratings on many Govt schools, are we looking for a Caymanian replacement who may be more “accomodating” and will get his driveway paved for free?.
Maybe Mary Rodriquez could go back and do it again rather than just collecting a chief officer salary doing hardly anything in the deputy governors office. Or add Jennifer Ahern who is another being paid CO salary for doing really nothing. Then theres Suckoo who ran away from education to go and be lost doing nothing at OfReg. What a disgrace.
Either Mary or Jennifer could go run Travel Time for the wine.
Eric has had enough over there.
3 Chief Officer salaries/benefits ( close to 1/2 million) for naught.
The jealousy continues. Get a life.
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Ms Rodrigues’s abrasive attitude last time she was involved in school inspection pissed everyone off and set the process back.
He left the island last month.
Why dislike? He & his wife left last month. She gave items to neighbours when they vacated their condo…
Who? Eric?
The article is about the school inspector. He & his wife left the island last month yet we are paying him until Dec? Please do not tell me it’s accrued leave, as he took off during all the school holidays during his contract (until Covid). About 50 days annually.
He no doubt has a new job to go to.