| The delivery of education at special-needs schools is likely to be boosted in the very near future, since, according to Education Minister Shaik Baksh, plans are apace to have teachers of such institutions trained with much urgency.Minister Baksh, during an interview with this newspaper yesterday, said that a Special Needs Education Unit is being formulated within the Ministry of Education.The unit,NFL Jerseys Cheap, the minister said, will come under the purview of the Ministry of Education’s School Health Education Unit.He added that it is expected that a coordinator will be appointed within the next three to four months. The coordinator will be tasked with ensuring that the unit fulfils the mandate of having teachers receive special-needs training.And this move, according to the minister, comes as part of the Education Sector Strategic Plan which was timetabled for the period 2008-2013.The ministry has already been assured that the plan will benefit from a $20.5M grant through the Education For All Fast Track Initiative (EFA-FTI) which Minister Baksh was able to secure during his attendance of an EFA-FTI meeting in Paris last year.In accepting the details of the plan, the minister disclosed that the donors have paved the way for Guyana to be in receipt of a full three-year tranche of funding,NFL Jerseys Cheap China, which will be available through the sizeable grant.However Minister Baksh has revealed that the ministry will have to obtain additional funding to complete the various programmes that the strategic plan entails. And,Cheap Jerseys Free, according to him, the additional funding is expected to be sourced from Government.At the recent budget presentation, the education sector was afforded a whopping $20.4B, with $3.6B for capital projects and $16.8 B for operational current expenditure.According to Minister Baksh,NFL Jerseys From China, special-needs is one of the major areas of the education sector which will be given immense focus.Over the years,Wholesale Authentic Jerseys, there have been complaints that teachers assigned at special-needs institutions are not specially trained, thus creating a situation whereby the delivery of education is either limited or non-existent.The parents of several special-needs students have complained that, even after spending years in special-needs institutions, their children are still unable to comprehend the simplest of words and numerals,Marlon Humphrey Jersey, leaving them to believe that the institutions are serving no purpose.Even some teachers who function within such institutions have decried the fact that they do not have the capacity to really educate the students, some of whom are very willing to learn. Some teachers have also reportedly left the education system because the training they would have received has, time and time again, proven to be inefficient in the special-needs arena.However, with the proposed special-needs initiative which is about to unfold within the education sector, the level of special-needs schools is poised to be elevated to a platform of sound education delivery.According to Minister Baksh, several teachers will be exposed to training, both locally and overseas. He also acknowledged that, currently, the system does not have the desired quota of special-needs teachers.The minister said that since there are no institutions locally to train the teachers, the ministry is hoping to secure the services of Voluntary Services Overseas personnel, particularly from England. He said that although it is expected that officials will come here to train the teachers, some of the teachers will also be sent to overseas training institutions. |
