BUT teachers say no resumption until new school year
Article by March 13, 2021
Sceptical of assurances on the control of the year-long COVID-19 pandemic, unionised teachers have rejected the Chief Medical Officer’s recommendation of a full-scale resumption of school, declaring there should be no return to face-to-face instruction until the new school year begins in September.
Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) president Pedro Shepherd declared that at this stage the risk of contracting the coronavirus significantly outweighs the potential benefits of returning to face-to-face classes, despite the Government’s top doctor’s projections as the country races to vaccinate thousands of Barbadians each week and the rate of infection continues to taper off.
Teachers next on vaccine priority list, says Bradshaw
Article by March 9, 2021
Hundreds of Barbadian educators will receive priority access to COVID-19 vaccines when the next doses become available, as the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training works on a “master plan” for primary and secondary education over the next few months.
This is the promise of Education Minister Santia Bradshaw, who, in a
Barbados TODAY interview conceded that stakeholders are once again overwhelmingly in favour of a return to face-to-face classes.
Bradshaw however explained that with factors like community spread of COVID-19 and the advent of the related Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) affecting children, discussions regarding the reopening of school are considerably more complex than they were during the first phase of the pandemic.
School heads adopting wait-and-see stance on exams barbadostoday.bb - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from barbadostoday.bb Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
February 24, 2021
President of the Association of Public Primary School Principals (APPSP) Hyacinth Harris is opposed to scrapping this year’s Common Entrance Exam despite lingering uncertainty about the firm date of the critical assessment.
In an interview on Tuesday, Harris revealed that with important matters still outstanding, the June 22 sitting announced in late December continues to be viewed as tentative.
“With regard to the Common Entrance, we are still awaiting a definitive statement from the Ministry of Education in terms of the date and so on. We had been given a date initially, but they are still saying that this is a fluid situation and we are still working on what must be done prior to administering the tests,” Harris told