Dr. Kasan Troupe, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education
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Dr. Kasan Troupe
By Kimone Witter
The Ministry of Education says there has been a noticeable decline in the number of teachers leaving the profession for overseas opportunities this summer.
The country has been grappling with a shortage of teachers, especially in Mathematics and the Sciences.
This has forced the ministry to employ various methods to assist schools, including an expanded international recruitment programme.
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Dr. Kasan Troupe, says there have been fewer resignations this summer when compared with previous years.
"We have seen some persons resigning as well, but I need to say to the country that we are not seeing the great shift as we saw last year in the number of resignations at this time," she told Wednesday's post Cabinet press briefing.
Dr. Troupe provided an update on the ministry's efforts to source educators from countries such as Nigeria, Ghana, the Philippines, and India to fill the teacher gap.
She said the government has been approached by countries, with an oversupply of teachers, who have expressed an interest in having their teachers work in Jamaica.
Ambassadors from the Phillipines and Ghana have already visited Jamaica, with the latter indicating that a team from Ghana will be in Jamaica in August to finalise conversations about supplying some of their teachers.
"What is interesting with this discussion, colleagues, is that they are interested in working for the same emoluments as we offer to our teachers in Jamaica. Nothing more. And in some instances, we are getting a number of volunteers who have also expressed some interest in being deployed to assist with our shortage," Dr. Troupe disclosed.
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