Education
MLAs push for more education cash
(CNS): More than $145 million has been allocated to education in the 18-month budget, accounting for around 17% of the government’s entire 2016/17 spending plan, but opposition MLAs and the education minister pressed for more yesterday, when concerns were raised about failing schools identified in last year’s damning school inspections. Pulling the $2.5 million budgeted […]
MLA calls for 3rd Bodden Town primary school
(CNS): Opposition MLA Alva Suckoo is calling on government to find the cash to build a third primary school in Bodden Town. Suckoo, who quit the PPM earlier this year and joined the opposition, is filing a private member’s motion asking government to use crown land in the fastest growing district in the Cayman Islands. Suckoo […]
School PTA petitions for more resources
(CNS): Concerned by an unsatisfactory level of academic achievement and an increase in behavioural problems at Savannah Primary School, the Parent-Teacher Association has launched a petition to make the education ministry address inadequate staffing resources. Ahead of the budget, due to be delivered on Monday, the PTA said they want to see increased resources for […]
DG still striving to localise civil service
(CNS): Cayman Islands Deputy Governor Franz Manderson has said that he is doing everything he can to recruit more Caymanians into the civil service. More than 74% of the people employed by government are local but he wants to see that increase, he told the Legislative Assembly Friday. Admitting that in some areas government had […]
Over a third of kids enter school below standard
(CNS): A new quick assessment of the literacy ability of children entering Year 1 of the government school system indicated that 36% of kids who started school in September were below standard. But a new literary intervention programme has been piloted in the primary schools, which officials said has had a positive impact on those […]
Survey finds 98% of job seekers not work ready
(CNS): A survey conducted by the National Workforce Development Agency (NWDA) of its registered clients who asked for support has found that 97.8% of local job seekers who responded were not work ready and have multiple barriers to getting a job. The survey is part of a newly released government report that has found a […]
High school project to restart in June
(CNS): After many years of problems at the new John Gray High School site, work is finally expected to restart in June, officials announced Wednesday. The education ministry has started the tendering process and adverts have been posted for potential contractors to begin the first phase of the works, a new school gym, to be […]
Primary school deputy to takeover at Lighthouse
(CNS): A local primary school deputy head will be taking over at the Lighthouse School in September when the new school year starts, ministry officials said Monday. Elroy Bryan, a Caymanian who is currently the deputy principal at Savannah Primary School (SPS), will take over from Carla MacVicar, who officially retired last September but stayed on […]
New JGHS head comes from TV fame UK school
(CNS): A twenty year veteran of the British education system and an expert in behaviour management, school improvement and distributed leadership, has been appointed as principal at the John Gray High School. Jonathan Clark’s previous job was vice principal at Passmores Academy, which was featured in a British TV ‘fly on the wall’ documentary, “Educating Essex”, though […]
Rivers: Scholarships important to community
(CNS): The education minister has opened this year’s local scholarship application programme, which provides financial assistance for tuition and books to pursue post-secondary and tertiary studies at institutions within the Cayman Islands. “It is important that we continue to provide local scholarships so that Caymanians can pursue their education at our local institutions and obtain […]
PTAs raise concerns about education
(CNS): The education ministry has admitted that representatives from a dozen government school PTAs raised a catalogue of concerns about problems in the education system with the minister and government officials at a recent forum. In what was described as “an informative and sometimes heated discussion on issues relating to understaffing, disruptive student behaviour, lack of […]
