Education Minister Dr Tim Gopeesingh says the primary school curriculum is being reviewed so that children without academic advantages will not be left out. Gopeesingh said this at Tuesday's presentation of results of the Diabetics Education Research and Prevention Institute's (DERPI) work. "I intend to make all schools prestige schools," said Gopeesingh, who noted that prestige schools do well because students entered with higher academic capabilities and so had an advantage when it came to academic results.
He said the primary school curriculum was being reviewed and the teaching of values, morals and ethics might be introduced.
Technical and vocational skills, visual and performing arts as well as drama and dance would also be added, he said. According to the minister, the Secondary Entrance Examination (SEA) is being reviewed so that it would no longer be "do or die". Instead they will look at a student's performance in Standards Three, Four and Five, he said. The minister said he had recently installed the National Schools Dietary Services Board and that meals were given daily to students through the school feeding programme.