Education Ministry to engage directly with PTAs to strengthen collaboration, improve accountability

The Ministry of Education will soon roll out an initiative to engage directly with Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs) across the country.

Subject Minister Sonia Parag explained that the initiative is intended to strengthen collaboration, reinforce accountability and drive improved outcomes for students.

“I think that engagement is going to assist us and assist parents, teachers, students with having a better partnership that we can work together to ensure that schools, that the policies that we are establishing in the ministry is being carried out in the schools,” Minister Parag explained in a video posted to her ministry’s Facebook Page.

“The PTAs are playing, they play an integral role whenever there are issues regarding school, the infrastructure itself, the schools itself. And you even have in communities various PTAs who would, they’d come together, they will have meetings, they will try to solve issues and they still have that sense of community in some of the PTAs and we want to be able to engage them directly as a government and directly as a ministry,” she added.

Minister Parag has already made it clear that there will be stronger accountability for schools and teachers this year. This will be achieved through the reintroduction of teacher appraisals and the introduction of school report cards.

Stronger accountability for schools, teachers this year – Parag