Education Minister Nick Kuman says there will be no elementary classes in primary schools. “Grades 1 to 3 will be introduced back to the primary schools. Also grades 7 and 8 will be introduced back to the high schools,” the minister said.” Kuman said implementation had started this year on developing the Civic and Christian Values Curriculum. “We are also at an advanced stage of overseas recruitment of maths and science teachers.”
Kuman said they had made some significant progress in reforms. “But there are still many challenges that remain to be addressed from 2018 and beyond, particularly, the declining quality of education,” he said. “The declining quality is directly correlated to the increased enrolments in all sectors of education at post-tuition fee free policy since 2012 when the policy was implemented. The department had identified eight priority policy interventions to improve the quality of education from 2018 to 2022 in its five-year plan as directed by the Government in Alotau Accord 11. “They include the introduction of phonics as a subject in elementary schools and pre-condition to Grade 1, improving teacher training, infrastructure development of teachers’ colleges to increase teacher supply to reduce class sizes and infrastructure developments to reduce class sizes at high and secondary school infrastructure.”
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