Sunday, August 29, 2021

The PM asserts “Cinq credits : on doit garder un certain niveau ”

Ki niveau li pé causé ?

They are good at implementing populist policies not at carrying out crucial reforms, and least of all , reforming an ossified and dysfunctional education system.

They are making a mockery of the educational reform ; some mere cosmetic changes to the exams system, the structure .....(academies, extended stream etc), dooming the education system to mediocrity - low quality useless pre-primary to tertiary education -free for all (sic) and standards are slipping fast.
What is even more unnerving is that they are not even aware that these are not the kind of reforms that will overhaul the whole system to deliver a quality- and innovation-based education and a new, constructive and exciting broader dimension for the 21st century knowledge society.
Very soon, we will have to confront the perils of our failure to reform and lift the standards of the state education system
• a failure to attack the entrenched and widespread interests of a small, but well-heeled elite that is profiting from the status-quo ,
• the failure of the education minister who is in league with a complacent and self-serving education establishment, whose ill-deserved privileges she has dedicated herself to consolidate – “Rs 417,350 pour les conseillers de la ministre Dookun-Luchoomun” and the help of husbandji at PSSA, to maintain the status quo.
A failure that what will come with the steepest political and economic price- increasing skills mismatch, falling productivity, feeble export growth and lower gdp growth path, staggering levels of joblessness and the widening chasm between rich and poor.