{"id":24536,"date":"2012-08-10T10:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=24536"},"modified":"2012-08-10T10:25:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T14:25:46","slug":"unqualified-teachers-plague-bahamas-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/08\/unqualified-teachers-plague-bahamas-education","title":{"rendered":"Unqualified Teachers Plague Bahamas Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112\" style=\"width: 208px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-112\" title=\"desmond-bannister\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/desmond-bannister-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/desmond-bannister-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/desmond-bannister.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Desmond Bannister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The country\u2019s education system is grappling with a lack of Bahamian instructors qualified to teach in \u201ccritical\u201d subjects like Math, English and sciences, former Minister of Education Desmond Bannister said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Bannister added that the government school system is entrenched in bureaucracy making it difficult for officials to remove a few unqualified instructors from the system.<\/p>\n<p>The senator\u2019s comments came a day after the Ministry of Education released the results of the 2012 Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) and Bahamas Junior Certificate (BJC) exams.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report prepared by the Ministry of Education on the BGCSE results, students sitting the exams received an average letter grade of D in English Language and E+ in Mathematics. The two subjects were among 19 that saw an improvement in results from last year.<\/p>\n<p>Bannister said in spite of the average scores for Math and English, BGCSE results have improved year-over-year for the past three years. Still, he conceded that the results show that students are struggling with core areas like numeracy and literacy.<\/p>\n<p>He said while there is a shortage of Bahamian teachers qualified to teach subjects like Math, English and the sciences, there is a disproportionate number of teachers specializing in general or religious studies.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Source: The Nassau Guardian<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country\u2019s education system is grappling with a lack of Bahamian instructors qualified to teach in \u201ccritical\u201d subjects like Math, English and sciences. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[21,140],"class_list":["post-24536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-educational","tag-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}