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Plans> Educational Reform Strategy for the OECS |
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EDUCATIONAL
REFORM
FOUNDATION
FOR THE FUTURE: by the
ORGANIZATION OF
EASTERN CARIBBEAN STATES Assisted by OECS Ministers of Education meeting in Tortola, British Virgin Islands in October 1990 at their Fourth Annual consultation agreed on the need to devise an Education Reform Strategy for the OECS region. This very timely and critically important decision set in train a process involving the establishment of an Education Reform Working Group in March 1991 with financial assistance coming from the Canadian International Development Agency. With its membership drawn almost completely from among OECS professional educators the Working Group, in the six-month period following its establishment in March 1991, has succeeded in preparing through a process involving national consultations and with regional and extra-regional inputs from education specialists, a body of recommendations worthy of serious consideration. Aptly entitled - Foundation for the Future: OECS Education Reform Strategy - the review, analysis and recommendations contained therein should prove of on-going interest and relevance and provide guidance to professionals active in the field of education in the OECS region. As the Report now stands and is presented here, its contents and in particular the views expressed in it, are entirely those of the Working Group. However, Ministers at the annual meeting held on 10-11 October, 1991 in Dominica broadly reviewed the Report and it is now to be the subject of detailed technical consideration at both the national and sub-regional levels. Subsequent to this Ministers will decide on specific policy areas which they wish to pursue. It is their intention, in the interim however, that the contents of the Report should receive the widest possible circulation among persons interested in educational policy and develo pment in the OECS and beyond. The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States is extremely grateful to the Canadian International Development Agency for the support which it has given to permit the timely preparation of the Report and to ensure its widespread circulation. Vaughan A. Lewis
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