SODELPA’s Ro Teimumu Kepa has today questioned as to what has happened to government’s plan to have an Education Commission and also asked whether Cabinet has put an end to this idea.
In her end of the week statement, Ro Teimumu stated that on 15th October, 2014, the then Minister for Education had told Parliament that major changes will be made following the report from the Education Commission.
Ro Teimumu says the then Minister for Education had said that the Education Commission would be established in 2015 following Cabinet’s approval.
She says nothing materialised from those words which was so unlike what Pratap Chand did in 1999 as Education Minister who came good on his promise to set up an independent Education Commission.
She says just as people did in 1999, people are calling for wide range of views to re-examine, evaluate and direct the nation’s education system to give it a chance to be on par with the rest of the Pacific.
In her response, Education Minister Rosy Akbar says the government is working in relation to the need for the establishment of a National Education Commission to re-align the education system to meet the needs of the labour market.
She adds that work on aligning education to meet the needs of the employers for specific skills is already underway.
Akbar then said that it is again a case of the opposition living in the past and challenged Ro Teimumu to record the achievements of her government when it came to the education system.
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