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Natalie McKenzie, Senior Lecturer at the Shortwood Teachers College
One senior lecturer believes a crisis is looming in Jamaica's education system with the mass exodus of teachers who are leaving to fill vacancies overseas.
Education Minister Fayval Williams has disclosed that 167 public sector teachers have resigned since July.
There is concern that the number could be higher when school resumes.
Natalie McKenzie, Senior Lecturer at the Shortwood Teachers College, has said while teacher migration is not new, the number of educators leaving at the beginning of the year is alarming.
With "nearly 600 leaving" since the start of the year and possibly more to go by October, Ms McKenzie said teachers are "seeing the vast opportunities" available to them not only in the United States or Canada, but in the Cayman Islands, Trinidad and Tobago and elsewhere.
She argued that they are being pushed away from Jamaica by "the lack of resources and... low remuneration and the packages" and so they have gone in search of better living and working conditions.
Ms McKenzie was speaking Monday on the Morning Agenda on Power 106.
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