Education in Guyana
AUGUST 25, 2013 · BY Stabroek News – EDITORIAL
Every year the CXC results are announced it triggers the annual hand-wringing about English and Maths, and a spate of suggestions about what can be done to rescue the education system. The first thing to be said is that education is a long-term process, and generally speaking, innovations or reforms introduced to bring about an improved outcome take a while to work their way through the system. In other words, with some special exceptions, instant solutions will not happen. In fact, sometimes, as the English authorities found out to their cost at one point, too many reforms introduced too quickly produce confusion and the opposite consequences from the ones which were intended.
The second thing is that under no circumstances should education be made into a political football; it is far too important for that. For those who look back to some rosy era when education was free from kindergarten to university, etc, etc, it must be pointed out that it was under Burnham that education went into precipitous decline. Continue reading
