Extending the Reach of Education, Generating Employment for the Marginalised

Abstract

PCF5 Sub-theme: Livelihoods // Promise of extending free tuition to secondary level students as well as increasing employment took the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) out of the wilderness after 18 years. This paper examines how the initiative of the outgoing People's National Party (PNP) government to have all teachers at the secondary level educated to the first degree level could be extended to ensuring primary and secondary education for all (adults and children alike). Such low cost strategy through the use of distance education could generate employment for the youth as well as those who are over 35 years, without working experience and who have thus been deemed unemployable. Through this mechanism, the potential of most members of the society would be unleashed to realize enhanced welfare for all. // Paper ID 158