Education
SEN veteran teacher takes up policy post
(CNS): Shari Smith has been appointed as the new Senior Policy Manager and Advisor for Inclusion in the ministry of education after more than 20 years as an educator in the special needs field. Starting at the Lighthouse School as a teacher, she was deputy principal and then principal at the school. Most recently she was […]
Ministry offers scholarships for medical specialisation
(CNS): The scholarship application process for the doctors’ specialisation program is now open and will run through 31 January 2016. The Seafarer’s Association is funding two doctors to obtain specialty training overseas for four years and the Education Council is also offering a limited number of scholarships for doctors’ specialisation with an increased scholarship allowance of […]
Lighthouse gets special accreditation
(CNS): The Lighthouse School has been designated a centre of excellence for its curriculum by an awarding body specialising in the special needs and disabilities areas. In 2008 the school began offering courses with ASDAN, allowing students to receive a recognised and established qualification from an accredited board for work they complete in the areas […]
School leaders improve own learning
(CNS): Fourteen leaders from government schools and the education department have passed through Part 1 of the International School Leadership programme, offered through the Ontario Principals Council (OPC), as part of efforts to improve the professional development of teachers and managers in the Cayman education system. Recent reports commissioned by the ministry pointed to extensive problems […]
High school teacher charged with sexual assault
(CNS): The police have revealed that another teacher in the government school system has been under investigation for some nine months for sexually abusing students at John Gray High School. The 41-year-old man was suspended in February, police revealed Wednesday, and arrested in March but he had been bailed until last week when he was […]
Action plan underway to address school performance
(CNS): In the wake of the recent review and damning school inspections report, giving the local education system a failing grade, the education minister told the Legislative Assembly Wednesday that she has met with all the government schools’ principals to discuss the plan of action to address the problems. Tara Rivers said school leaders are […]
Troubled teens fundraising for their own support programme
(CNS): Students from the John Gray High School are raising the cash themselves for a mentoring group that is helping to turn their lives around. According to the school counsellor, Chris Murray, BoyZ2men, which began at the school in 2009 and has a proven track record for getting at risk and troubled teens back on track, is […]
Suckoo confirmed as education ministry boss
(CNS): After more than twelve months acting in the job, Christen Suckoo has been appointed as the chief officer in the Ministry of Education, Employment and Gender Affairs. Deputy Governor Franz Manderson said Suckoo was given his formal title on 1 October following an open recruitment process, though government officials did not say how many […]
Accountability will lead to raised education standards
(CNS): There was not much praise for teachers and the work they do from the minister Monday in her message marking World Teachers’ Day. Just weeks after the publication of damning reports from school inspections and consultants, which concluded that the standard of education in the Cayman Islands was poor, Tara Rivers acknowledged that the […]
John Gray project crawling forward towards re-start
(CNS): Government is currently in the process of surveying the John Gray High School construction site as it makes plans to restart the work on the project, which has been stalled for more than three years. Speaking to the Public Accounts Committee on Thursday, Christen Suckoo who will be confirmed as the ministry’s chief officer […]
Inspectors give mixed review for Lighthouse school
(CNS): One of only four government run schools that managed to escape a failing grade during the recently published baseline inspections, the Lighthouse School, which caters to children with special education needs, has been classed as ‘adequate’. The report praises the school, although inspectors said they were concerned about the provision for the students with […]
