JTA President Mark Smith
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President of the Jamaica Teacher's Association Dr. Mark Smith has voiced concern about the country's capacity to fund implementation of the recommendations in the Jamaica Education Transformation Commission's report.
The document, more popularly known as The Patterson Report, puts forward 365 recommendations for overhauling the country's education sector.
Dr Smith, citing a Mona School of Business estimate of $280 billion over eight years to fund implementation of the Report's recommendations, noted that, so far the Government has only provided $48 billion of that through the Consolidated Fund.
"So, we are concerned that, if we're going to have this transformation... we have to have the tools to do the job," he said.
Accordingly, he stressed that it was "important that we identify where we're going to get the $232.2 billion that is needed to close that gap."
Dr Smith, speaking in Trelawny at the JTA's Education Conference, called for an "historic investment in education to catapult our education system into the future, thus safeguarding our economic fortunes; this should be our single greatest obsession, as a people."
The government has established the Education Transformation Oversight Committee to spearhead implementation of recommendations in The Patterson Report.
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