Education
Primary school battles air conditioning problems
(CNS): Students at Prospect Primary have been sweating through their first week at school after the air-condition system went on the blink last Wednesday. When the system was finally repaired yesterday evening, the school’s PTA extended its thanks to parents and pupils for their patience. The problem was caused by a leak, which engineers had […]
Brac high school makes grade but primaries fail
(CNS): The Layman Scott High School on Cayman Brac is the only high school in the Cayman Islands to receive a ‘good’ rating in its baseline inspection report. The only other school to make the same grade was Prospect Primary on Grand Cayman. But despite the ‘good’ grade for the Sister Islands secondary school, both […]
JGHS staff blamed for kids bad behaviour
(CNS): Poor leadership and bad teachers are behind the behaviour problems at John Gray High School, according to the consultants who conducted the baseline inspection at the Cayman Islands’ largest and worst performing government high school. The principal at the time of the inspection and over the previous four years was Lyneth Monteith, who is currently the […]
Consultants recommend boards to run schools
(CNS): In its review of the current education system KPMG has recommended a new governance model for public schools in the Cayman Islands that would make them independent from the ministry and government. The management consultants and auditors want to see boards introduced to manage schools that will include parents, former students and teachers, as well as employers […]
Funding scarce for crime prevention
(CNS): Local activists and volunteers, including the education ministry’s programme co-ordinator for at-risk youth, are hoping to secure funding from government to expand the work they do on crime prevention. While government spends tens of millions of dollars every year on police, prison and other security and enforcement measures, it spends almost nothing on crime prevention. […]
Teachers blamed for achievement gap
(CNS): The quality of teaching has been blamed for what consultants and school inspectors have described as an achievement gap for Cayman students compared to those in the UK and other leading economies. Releasing an education review by management consultants as well as a baseline inspection Thursday, government officials also launched another new education strategic action […]
No school for CIFEC students in face of techie trouble
(CNS): Students attending the Cayman Islands Further Education Centre (CIFEC), who were due to start their school year on Wednesday, have been told that there will be no school tomorrow. According to government officials, technical difficulties over inputting data on the Student Information System used to generate timetables means that the school will not open […]
Rivers: Students still have poor literacy skills
(CNS): Some students are leaving school “without obtaining the literacy levels they require” to contribute to society, Education Minister Tara Rivers said in a message marking World Literacy Day. She said improving literacy standards continues to be one of the highest priorities for the local education system but said changes to that system were needed “to ensure that the literacy […]
Seeing can mean believing
Miss Represented writes: The annual release of the ever improving results from the government schools has yet again stirred up debate, fuelled in the main by those that doubt their legitimacy. In some ways this skepticism about government data is not without foundation. Other arms of government have fudged figures in the past, yet the […]
Ministry defends choice of consultants
(CNS): The Education Ministry has roundly defended its decision to choose consultants with no experience at all inspecting government schools anywhere to conduct its baseline inspection of all the Cayman Islands’ government schools. The ministry has also strongly refuted accusations that this report has been doctored, as turned out to be the case with a […]
Some teachers to get pay rise this year
(CNS): Inequities in the salaries of teachers, where some local staff are earning less than their peers recruited from overseas, will be rectified in this school year, Education Minister Tara Rivers announced at the gathering of teachers Wednesday to mark the beginning of the new school year. She also said that the Portfolio of the […]
