Education Minister Fayval Williams
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Education Minister Fayval Williams has expressed confidence that interventions to help students recover from the learning loss caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will be effective.
The World Bank has projected that, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, current Jamaican students will essentially receive only 5.6 years of learning despite attending school for more than twelve years.
Bringing students back into the physical classroom, the yard-to yard initiative to find students and extra lessons are among the strategies in place.
Students will also be engaged in a summer school programme.
Mrs Williams told Radio Jamaica News that the corrective measures should help students make up for the missed lessons, despite the World Bank's projection, citing the "extended schools" among other initiatives as part of the solution.
She said parents should be part of the intervention to get their children back to the acceptable level of learning, by engaging in reading exercises at home with them.
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