PRIME MINISTER P. J. Patterson has asserted the need for a technological revolution of the education sector and, accordingly, has instructed the Minister of Commerce, Science and Technology to present a submission to Cabinet by March 8.
The submission, a release from the Office of the Prime Minister states, should outline the framework for a more strategic, proactive and integral role in creating the knowledge base for the new era of technology in the education sector.
The Prime Minister's instructions came after the Hon. Maxine Henry-Wilson, Minister of Education Youth and Culture presented her Ministry's priorities for budgetary support for the 2005/06 financial year on the final of the two-day Cabinet retreat at Jamaica House.
According to Minister Henry-Wilson, a modern education system must utilise appropriate technologies both in the administration of the system and classroom delivery. While acknowledging that the technology was not a panacea for the ills in the system, she said that the modernisation of the Ministry of Education and the more efficient use of resources would not be fully realised without the use of technologies. She said that more resources could be deployed to the delivery of education services if administrative costs were reduced.
