A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is calling for a national Commission of Inquiry (COI) to ascertain why the overall results at the primary, secondary and tertiary public education levels continue to be unsatisfactory.APNU, the largest faction of the Opposition in the National Assembly, at a press conference yesterday,Evan Engram Jersey, said that it is alarmed that the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) has been obliged to dismiss an average of two to three teachers every week for offences within the public education system.According to APNU’s Leader, David Granger, offences ranging? from teaching under the influence of alcohol, carnal knowledge of students, flogging of children without authority, inefficiency and poor supervision and misappropriation of school funds,Jeff Green Jersey, are but a few of the worrying problems.Granger noted that the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has raised concerns of the dangerously worrying trend of school violence.“There has been the appearance of the so-called ‘Gaza’ and ‘Gully’ gangs which target teachers they dislike. The number of violent incidents and the severity of those incidents immediately require a comprehensive investigation.”Concerns were also raised by APNU as to the plan by the TSC to recruit overseas Mathematics and Science teachers for the public education system.According to the Opposition Leader, it is a fact that not enough is done to amend the problems of educating and employing Mathematics and Science teachers locally.The coalition also expressed concern with what they called “educational apartheid”- the disparity between performances of private schools as against public schools, with the former performing seemingly better.Issues were also raised about the level of education in the hinterland.“It is evident also that,Deion Jones Falcons Jersey UK, of the 16,Brian Gionta Jersey, 811 candidates who sat the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) this year, only 173 students who comprised the top one per cent were placed in the best secondary school. Over 80 of the 173 students were from private schools around the country. No student from the hinterland, namely the Barima-Waini, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Potaro- Siparuni and Rupununi regions or from the Mahaica-Berbice Region, qualified among the top one per cent.”According to APNU, an alarming number of candidates who sat the examination performed so badly that there could be a conclusion that they were probably “functionally illiterate”. Mathematics in particular is a problem for concern.“The CSEC pass rate for this subject declined from 34.5 per cent in 2010,Kyrie Irving Jersey, to 30.4 per cent in 2011; to 29.69 per cent in 2012; and to 28.92 per cent this year, 2013; the trend is clear,Brian Poole Falcons Jersey UK,” Granger warned.He said another contributing factor to this “education apartheid” is the alarming dropout rate that prevails in public schools, particularly in the hinterland, where completing secondary school often takes students far from home and family.“Children who fail to attend school regularly or who drop out of school completely are most likely to be unemployed face a life of poverty or become involved in crime which can lead to imprisonment.”Granger said that there is enough evidence to warrant a formal investigation into the entire public education system.“Silence will not solve the problems. The Ministry of Education is well aware that discipline and performance in the country’s public schools have been unsatisfactory over the last decade.”

By Abena Rockcliffe The government was in for abundant ridicule on Monday last when Opposition Members of ParliamentOpposition MP,Charles Ramson Jr.took the floor of the National Assembly to speak about budgetary measures.The criticisms were many. But perhaps most scathing were criticisms about the government’s neglect of the youth of Guyana, coming mostly from speakers like Charles Ramson Jr.? and Joseph Hamilton.Ramson told the House that he could not support a National Budget that seeks to do nothing for youths. The Member of Parliament (MP) said that it is rather unfortunate that the government plans to “increase and promote youth unemployment”.Ramson quoted Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan, who told the House last week that “apart from youth unemployment,Chase Edmonds Jersey, this budget seeks to promote youth health and safety, sport and culture.”Ramson pointed out that this is recorded on page 60 of the printed Budget Speech. The MP did not dismiss the possibility that the wording was a mistake; he said however that that is the lack of? professionalism and lack of attention paid to detail that the man in the street is speaking about.Ramson said that on the same page 60, the Finance Minister inferred that young people are not ready for leadership. “We are not worthy enough to get appointed to cabinet.”The young lawyer also questioned why a reportedly completed National Youth Policy is yet to be taken to the National Assembly. He questioned too, “Why haven’t we (the opposition) been consulted about it? We are still the representatives of everybody in this nation just like you (the government) are. It should have been placed here.”Ramson said that A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change only used young people to get elected to Office.The MP charged the government, “Stop using young people to get elected. Stop using young people for our ideas and then when it comes to make the appointments you leave us out in the cold and this nation is left with a real GOG—a Government of Geriatrics.”He said that young people were allowed to shine under the PPP.In this regard, Ramson pointed to the fact that his comrades, Priya Manickchand, Anil Nandlall, Irfaan Ali and Bharrat Jagdeo were all given the trust of a PPP government while they were in their late 20s early 30s.Joseph Hamilton opened his presentation saying that he spent extensive time examining the Budget in an effort to find what is in store for the average ordinary Guyanese, but found nothing. Hamilton said he saw nothing for women, nothing for people with disabilities, nothing for the poor,http://www.soccerpro.us.com/AC-Milan-FC/, and nothing for the youth.Opposition MP,Alexis Sanchez Chile Jersey,Joseph Hamilton“The Budget was elusive for the ordinary people…it will make the low middle class poor and the poor, poorer.Addressing youth and the Budget, Hamilton said that Minister Jordan only spoke about broad outlines for youth development. The MP said that a simple comparison between the Budget 2015 speech and the Budget 2016 speech will show that the government is not serious about youth development.“Look at Budget 2015 and Budget 2016 you will see that the same language, actually the same words are used.”The MP said that there is “no meat on the bone of the Budget for young people”.“It does not say how much money will be invested to train youth, how many (young people) will be facilitated with startup grants and low interest loans to venture into businesses; it speaks nothing about that,” said Hamilton.Hamilton told the government, “The young people don’t want to hear about some broad policy statement in 2016, they heard that from the government in 2015, and since then the financial circumstance has remained and, for a large majority, it has become worst since the APNU+AFC came into govt.”Hamilton urged government Ministers to stop burying their heads in the sand and try to do something to help the youth of Guyana.ANYTHING FOR THE POOR,Adam Shaheen Jersey, THE WOMEN OR THOSE WITH DISABILITIES?Hamilton told the House that youths are the only ones who have been ignored in Budget 2016.According to him, the poor have also been ignored, the working class has been ignored,World Baseball Classic Jerseys Outlet, people with disabilities have been ignored and so were women.Further, the MP said that the “sensible” Minister of Finance has also ignored the economic crisis.Hamilton said that it is unfortunate that government has been unable to respond to this.He said that the economy is in serious trouble and the problems can only be fixed by wealth-creating measures. According to Hamilton, instead of putting the n

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