Teachers still under pressure with UTT degree

1.Why are graduates being allowed to suffer severe financial distress while the Ministry of Education continues to dilly dally with regards to the proper assessment of their degrees?

2. How can the Ministry of Education claim that vital aspects in the Curriculum of the Bachelor Degree in Education programme at UTT are missing when they continue to send teachers on scholarship to do this degree?

3. Why is the Ministry of Education of Trinidad and Tobago failing to recognise the worth of the Bachelor’s degree in Education done at the University of Trinidad and Tobago especially when many graduates have received full international and government scholarships based on the same degree?

4. Why are qualified special needs education teachers who have been graduating from the Bachelor’ Degree in Education programme at the University of Trinidad and Tobago not being considered to take up the many vacant special education posts that currently exist?

5.Why is the Ministry of Education insisting that the Early Childhood and Special Needs Education graduate teachers have not met the requirements of a trained primary schoolteacher (T1) when their four-year degrees are being assessed against two-year diplomas?

6. Why has the Ministry of Education failed to recognise that the Special Needs and Early Childhood Education graduates can be used as specialist teachers within the primary and secondary school framework?

7. If there is an issue with regards to the Early Childhood Care and Education and Special Needs Education degree at UTT, why is the Ministry of Education informing new applicants that in order to be considered for the teaching service, they must attain that same qualification?

M ROBINSON

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