ANDREE NEMBHARD, head of the transformation team on education, said members are finalising plans to implement the recommendations by the task force report on the sector.
"We have only just started (but) we are pressing ahead assiduously," she stressed.
Speaking at a press conference in December, Maxine Henry-Wilson, the minister of education, said that the process of transformation would have started by March 2005 with several critical actions.
DELAY
However, Mrs. Nembhard said there has been a delay in the implementation process. She explained that the team started working on February 21 with one member and they were building the team and developing the action plan before the recommendations were implemented.
A statement from the Office of the Prime Minister in February said that the key areas for immediate intervention include governance and management, literacy and remediation, anti-social and violent behaviour, and stakeholder participation and communication.
The task force on education was appointed by the prime
minister last January and the report was made public
in December, with several
sweeping recommendations.
The proposals, made by the 14-member task force headed by University of Technology
principal, Dr. Rae Davis, include performance pay for teachers, licensing of teachers, the increase of students' contact hours in schools, literacy and grade level remediation.
