The Ministry of Education, Youth and Information is to begin the implementation of a seven-year high-school programme this academic year.
During a back-to-school broadcast recently, Education Minister Fayval Williams noted that any student who completed grade 11 in the last academic year and is not enrolled for the traditional CAPE curriculum is entitled to be admitted to one of the new Sixth Form Pathway programmes to pursue a two-year course of study.
Mrs. Williams also informed that across primary schools, the Ministry will pivot to using more specialist subject teachers with an emphasis on Mathematics and English Language, which are the foundation subjects.
Turning to the early-childhood sector, Mrs. Williams said that assessing all children at age four in the areas of general development, behaviour and early learning in literacy and numeracy, will be done annually at all institutions.
