BVI education officials visit Cayman to observe best practices
Education officials from the British Virgin Islands recently travelled to the Cayman Islands for an educational exchange aimed at identifying best practices to enhance the BVI’s education system.
The delegation, led by Education Minister Sharie de Castro, conducted on-site visits to several schools in the Cayman Islands, where they observed innovative learning environments, school maintenance systems, and inclusive education practices in action.
Minister de Castro said the visit included a series of high-level discussions with key education stakeholders.
“We participated in strategic meetings with senior officials from the Cayman Islands Ministry of Education, Department of Education Services, and Curriculum and Learning teams,” she said. “We conducted school visits to observe best practices in early childhood education, inclusive education, and technical and vocational training, and engaged in policy discussions on curriculum design, teacher licensing, infrastructure management, and recruitment strategies.”
The discussions identified several key areas for future collaboration, including mutual exchanges in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE), Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), and Special Education, de Castro stated.
The visit also laid the groundwork for potential technical assistance partnerships and cross-territory training opportunities.
According to the Ministry of Education, the delegation explored further collaboration with the University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) and examined apprenticeship and workforce readiness initiatives at the Public Works Construction Trades Training Centre.
“As part of the next steps, the Ministry of Education, Youth Affairs and Sports will continue internal consultations aimed at adapting best practices observed during the visit and follow up on formalising areas of collaboration,” the Ministry said.
The visit took place from April 1 to 4.
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Set of Idiots !!!!!
Have you ever been to Cayman? Why are we soooo judgemental. Cayman is a beautiful island and the infrastructure is also amazing. It’s always great to broaden your horizons and see how things are done differently in different places.
@vi to the bone. That’s the best of you? Your ignorance is……
They have nothing to do! It’s like they be on Drew Internat searching for travel opportunities. Suck teeth!
Just a travel party of some sort enjoying flying around, because you are an educated person, and so why would you have to fly to cayman islands to plagiarized someone else ways of been an education minister?
Hurricane Ivan devastated cayman 2004, yet they managed to rebuild incredibly quickly, replacing good infrastructure with great infrastructure, why not us .
Another jolly
” ah tek ah pickcha….click”
It’s amazing how they don’t take principals or even teachers on these trips to have first hand information. It’s always they have to go to return to tell you. I guess they alone have passports or a monopoly on educator.
All these people on one trip and let’s see what will change. My prediction, nothing.we are yet to the see what the education officer for the arts has done apart from walking around looking cute. It’s an office full of people with nothing to do so they make tik tok videos and take plane trips.
At some point they can take a principal or two but that’s out of their minds because they can’t leave their friends behind.
I hope they’ll implement something they saw. On another note, why is there no curriculum department? What are the roles of all these subject officers? When will the revised
curriculum be ready?
ah set ah wet cats flying round bawling meoow, meoww1
Hear you say GIRLS TRIP!!!!!
It starts at home.
The first step should have been for the same group of EOs to come into each classroom here in the BVI and see what is being doing during ‘intervention’ and regular class sessions.
Then you all can budget for the necessary human and material resources for improve early childhood development.
If students don’t “get it’ in their lower primary years, it will be extremely difficult for them in the upper primary and secondary years.
I think this money would have been better spent conducting a complete review of our education system (from early childhood to tertiary, including technical vocational education and training – TVET) to identify the gaps that currently exist. For example the BVI TVET Council has not functioned in about 20 years (though the legislation calls for it). There is also no existing TVET policy either that I am aware of. Once the gaps are identified then corresponding policies should be upgraded, or put in place if necessary, to help to guide practice. While the Cayman system may offer some guidance, certainly there will be contextual pecurialities between both systems. It just seems as though we are putting ‘the cart before the horse’ here in my humble opinion.
**I meant ‘contextual peculiarities’ I also accidentally pressed ‘dislike’ arrow.
Trouble come August. Teachers are tired, stressed, and stretched.