New Education Act being drafted

The act will not be amended but will be a new one, he said.

Francis made the remarks in response to a question about the representation of ECCE teachers and the ECCE sector against the background of a TTUTA picketing exercise yesterday that was supported by the newly formed Early Childhood Care Workers Union outside the Ministry of Education head office, Port-of- Spain. “It is our intention to have ECCE regularised as part of the teaching profession. At this moment they are not included in the Education Act,” he said.

“The Education Act of 1964 does not include the ECCE. It does not include the tertiary sector.

Now we have one education system that could be seamless from ECCE to tertiary and the educ act should reflect them,” he said.