More than a year ago the untrained teachers, who operate within the school system, were issued with letters which made it clear that if they did not upgrade their status and become ‘trained teachers’ by a particular time, they would be asked to leave the system.
Many were able to access some upgrading programmes offered by the Adult Education Association (AEA) and the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education (IDCE) and so were accepted at the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) for training. Others took the opportunity to upgrade their qualifications within the year and so applied for entry to CPCE.
The People’s National Congress Reform says, it is now clear that there are a large number of teachers, who operate within the system, who will not be able to access training at the CPCE because there is now a new programme – the Associate Degree in Education (ADE) – which will be launched sometime next week. The qualifications for entry to the ADE are much higher than what some of the current teachers possess and as such they have been excluded.
