Education Minister Fayval Williams
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Education Minister Fayval Williams, speaking with Hotline host, Emily Shields
Education Minister Fayval Williams says bursars were notified about the decision to move away from teachers being paid by bursars and have educators receive their salaries directly from the Ministry prior to her making the announcement.
The Bursars Association of Jamaica has indicated that they were not made aware of the decision.
However, speaking Friday on Radio Jamaica's call in programme, Hotline, the Education Minister said conversations about the issue "would have come up" with various stakeholders in different meetings and virtual conferences.
She acknowledged that the ministry could communicate "better and more often" with stakeholders but insisted it shares information via various means, including through bulletins and social media.
Information about this specific issue may not have been in the public domain, she said, since the matter is "so specific to schools".
Mrs Williams maintained that moving from bursar-paid schools to a centralised system will be more efficient since the ministry's process is carried out through an electronic, web-based platform available to all of the education sector.
"It will be a system in which all of the teachers and other administrators' information - their files that they have on them, their paper files - can be scanned and uploaded into the system," she explained.
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