60 Cuban Teachers To Cover Shortages

Mon, Feb 24th 2020, 04:25 PM

THE Ministry of Education will engage 60 specialist teachers from Cuba to address a local teacher shortage, officials said on Friday. Ministry officials signed an extension to an existing memorandum of understanding with the Cuban government, which allows the Bahamian government to hire teachers from Cuba. A team, headed by Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary Serethea Clarke, will head to Cuba for a recruitment exercise from March 14-21. Marcellus Taylor, director of education, said the ministry plans to recruit the Cuban teachers for areas such as agricultural science, auto mechanics, biology, chemistry, electrical installation, mathematics, Spanish and French. Mr Taylor said the ministry has faced challenges with recruiting and retaining teachers. When asked if the ministry will still be facing shortages despite bringing in more foreign teachers, he explained that the number of teachers is not the problem, rather it is the lack of teachers for certain subjects.

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