Opposition Spokesman on Finance, Julian Robinson, is urging the government to scrap its sixth-form pathways programme and focus its priorities on addressing learning loss.
He made the call during his contribution to the Budget Debate in the House of Representatives last evening.
The sixth-form pathways is part of the ministry’s implementation of a seven-year high-school programme.
It allows for students who complete Grade 11 to enroll in the programme, and pursue a two-year course of study with alternative opportunities alongside the traditional sixth-form curriculum.
But Mr. Robinson says the management capacity to handle both a remedial programme and two additional years of high school does not exist.
He also expressed disappointment that the budget for the next fiscal year had no allocation to begin implementation of the Orlando Patterson Education Transformation Report.
Julian Robinson, Opposition Spokesman on Finance.
