– as Government works towards universal secondary educationAs part of its drive to attain universal secondary education, Government, through the Ministry of Education,Minister of Education, Priya Manickchandwill in the New Year be working towards the realisation of three new secondary schools.These additional facilities at Good Hope, East Coast Demerara; Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke/Linden Highway and Westminster/La Parfaite Harmonie in Region Three,Cheap NHL Jerseys China, will cater for 2,600 additional places for public school students.The move to construct the new schools comes at a time when, according to Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, access to education is at an all time high. Moreover, she at her end of year press conference on Friday said that more than 85 per cent of the country’s children are enrolled in the nursery sector.“This is easily the highest across the Commonwealth Caribbean and we are very proud of it,” said the Minister as she went on to note that in the primary sector Guyana has attained the Millennium Development Goal that speaks to universal primary education. This therefore means that children across Guyana are able to access a primary school.But while universal secondary education has been attained in most Regions of the country,Cheap NFL Jerseys, Manickchand acknowledged that there is yet more work to be done before Guyana can claim this status at a national level. She however noted that “we will not rest until universal secondary education, that is, a general secondary education, is available to all of our secondary school age students.”According to Minister Manickchand,Wholesale Jerseys Paypal, the Ministry was able to ascertain the number of students the proposed school will be able to accommodate by using statistics available at the level of the education system. And according to the Minister, “All of these schools had serious community consultations before the locations and capacities were arrived at.”Last year, Minister Manickchand shared her conviction that secondary education will be achieved under the Donald Ramotar Administration, a feat that is left to be seen given the President’s announcement of early elections.Some of the areas of the country requiring attention to gain universal secondary education are Regions One, Seven, Eight and Nine. However, the schooling limitation in Region Eight is likely to be resolved with the completion of a sprawling secondary school at Kato in the New Year.However, the issue of infrastructure has not been a major challenge in many of the Regions. She has long spoken of the need to address general proficiency in the secondary level schools, particularly on the Coastland, but noted that the Ministry is however tasked with addressing a transportation shortcoming.She said, “What we need to do is to provide transportation for children to get from point A to point B…We are working consciously on this and I believe this is something I would be pleased to announce shortly that we have achieved.”Added to this the Minister had noted that another sustained focus of the Ministry is to improve the pass rates at the secondary level,Cheap Jerseys Wholesale, particularly in the areas of Mathematics and English.This strategic venture is intended to help students to matriculate, Manickchand said. Last year, the Ministry secured the services of two Mathematics Specialists – at the level of a Senior Education Officer in the Secondary Sector and another at the National Centre for Educational Resource Development.These services were acquired even as efforts were made to collaborate with the World Bank to introduce some new measures to make learning Mathematics accessible and interesting.The need for secondary education has been an issue that has been commented on in many factions.According to Manickchand’s colleague Minister, Dr Leslie Ramsammy,wholesale nfl jerseys, who currently holds responsibility for the Ministry of Agriculture the inability to access secondary level education has been identified as one of the major hindrances that have over the years stymied people’s elevation to professional standing.