Expert Challenges Education Ministry To Raise the Bar

Expert challenges the Education Ministry to raise the bar – Education Measurement and Evaluation specialist, Professor Neville Ying says education transformation is about radical changes and not small incremental ones. He insists the bar has to be higher when comparing students’ performance each year, adding a small percentage in changes will not be effective in adequately transforming education.

The education specialist is insisting the government does more to raise the bar in local education and is challenging authorities to create a paradigm shift by removing certain classifications such as traditional and non-traditional schools, which connotes a level of inferiority. 

Ying is also suggesting more Jamaican students be given a chance at international exposure through foreign exchange programmes. He says another effective method to boost education development, is to allow students at the secondary level to compete on the international platform and that an international ranking of the education system will see fruitful results.

Reporter: Justin Graham.