![]() ![]() While the rate of increase in student enrolment and their access to an online platform was encouraging, the data did not clarify the consistent levels of student attendance and participation in classes during school hours. By the middle of November 2020 the statistics exposed 402,635 students enrolled across 959 schools and 178,116, or 44 per cent having access to a digital platform. (Back to School Report, October 2020, Week 1, Public Administration and Appropriations Committee, 2021). Only 65,426, or 17 per cent of them had access to a digital platform. Other learning kits were also used.Īt that time, the MOEYI reported enrolment of 381,627 students across 872 schools. On Octoclasses resumed for students using online and audiovisual (TV and radio) learning. In Jamaica, the formal start of the 2020/2021 academic year was delayed by a month. ![]() “Children here have been out of the classroom longer than any other child in the world, the loss will be more disastrous and far-ranging than in any other region for children, for parents, and for the society at large,” indicated Jean Gough, UNICEF regional director for Latin America and the Caribbean. Accordingly, almost 60 per cent, or three out of five children in Latin America and Caribbean have missed an entire school year due to COVID-19 lockdowns across the world. Schools in this region opened fully for only six days in 2020, which is lower than the global average of 37 days. On the whole, schools in Latin America and the Caribbean remained fully closed for 158 days from March 2020 to February 2021, longer than the global estimate of 95 days.Ĭompared to all the other regions this is the world's longest school closure. On Mathe Ministry of Education, Youth and Information (MOEYI) directed all public and private schools in Jamaica to close given the confirmation of the first case of COVID-19 in Jamaica. The pandemic has worsened the situation in learning, school attendance, classroom engagement, and students meeting grade level learning targets. Currently, the majority of our Jamaican students (56.4 per cent) have not been able to accomplish this. Our reasonable expectation for any student is for them to attain a level of proficiency to pass at least five subjects at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate level in high school. There were approximately 439,448 students registered in Jamaican primary and secondary schools for the 2018/2019 academic year. Jamaica currently comes last in the English-speaking Caribbean on the percentage of eligible students enrolled in the formal school system (UNESCO 2018). It was clear from Ministry of Education data that many students had developed “learning loss” as a result of their separation from physical, face-to-face interactive teaching in a classroom. ![]()
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