– curriculum reform benefitting students of Region 9

MINISTER of Education, Nicolette Henry, on Friday commissioned the Parikwarunau Nursery School as well as the Arapaima Nursery School in Linden, before commissioning a smart classroom at the Lethem Learning Resource Centre at the Tabatinga Annex.

Henry told residents of Lethem, at a community meeting, that this reflects some of the improvements of her ministry since this government took office.

Taking precedence in Henry’s address was curriculum reform, which is benefiting the students of the Rupununi Region, since improvements in their performances have been noted. She in detail, explained the need for curriculum reform, since the 1976 version has been deemed outdated. “This government has taken education as a priority and therefore we believe that it is important, that first of all, you have to modernise what you are doing and make it relevant for the today’s world and that is important,” she said. Curriculum reform, she told parents sitting in the audience, will enable their children to matriculate better, to become productive citizens and to reach their full potential.

Similarly the smart classrooms, as the one recently commissioned, coupled with the curriculum reform, will enable the students to function in real time and will enable the children of Region Nine to have similar opportunities as those in the coastal regions.

“Fortunately we have begun to see a shift in paradigm and I have noticed that particularly in 2018, we have had good examination results, coming out of the hinterland regions, I want to say that is a start and I trust that we will work together to see the day when we will have comparative results,” the education minister Posited.

Henry also noted that her ministry would have made strides in teachers’ training and have established the first hinterland training facility in Region Seven, which is definitely a start to great things in the hinterland region. The residents praised Henry for her continuous contribution to education improvement in Guyana, many of which were highlighted in her ministry’s publication, ‘An Educated Nation’, which was widely distributed in Lethem on Friday.