Guyana ponders extending classes to weekends, holidays

Guyana’s Education Minister Shaik Baksh is proposing a nationwide literacy program in schools this year that involves classes being extended in the afternoons and on weekends and holidays, in an effort to improve the quality of education. A similar program targeting adults at the community level is also planned since, according to Baksh, the literacy level is declining across the country. He said this continues to be one of the major challenges of the education sector and is something that must be addressed.

“The results of the assessments in our primary and secondary schools over the past year have sent a strong signal to us about where we are in terms of literacy in our schools and even countrywide. But in addition to the program being implemented we need our teachers to dedicate more time to the children and for them to spend more time in the classrooms,” Baksh said. Read more at the Starbroek News website.