Showing posts with label Minister of Education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Minister of Education. Show all posts

Monday, August 17, 2015

5-Year Olds To Start School With Assessment

To see if they're ready. And if they're not the school will wait for them to be ready. That's what the Minister of Education told a radio station she plans of doing soon. There are at least two problems with this idea. One is how long is the school going to wait? And two parents -- knowing that there is an evaluation -- will start preparing their children for it. Probably a good one to one-and-half years before the test. So we're looking at toddlers taking private tuition.

Not good. Because our school system already takes away way too much of the light that each person is born with. And produces way too many obese parrots.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

How Bunwaree Can Be Bold In the Next Few Days

By deciding to add a few chairs on average to each Form 1 classroom in January so that the impending CPE results don't condemn several thousands kids to one more year of boredom studying a grossly ill-designed curriculum. In the process he will make some real progress on his strategic goal to make our school system more efficient.

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Renga Would Have Turned 100

That's short for Renganaden Seeneevassen. He was a lawyer, politician and our country's first Minister of Education. He would have turned 100 on April 11 last. He died way too soon on June 6th 1958 at the age of 48. Although I never got the honour to meet him, his name popped-up in conversations grown-ups would have in the 1970s.

If you want to find more about this great man you can visit his official website. You may also read the piece SKJ wrote the day he passed away.