PAY A DIFFERENT SALARY to maths teachers to help stem Barbados’ low pass rate in the subject.
Human resource specialist Orville Lynch moved the idea yesterday, warning against a blanket approach to the troubling issue of low pass rates.
“If mathematics is a problem, why should they [those teaching it] be paid the same as other teachers who can’t do it, just because they got a degree? One size fits all hardly ever works not only in education but in any other discipline,” said Lynch, a Ministry of Labour representative.
“When there is a particular problem, you have to find a particular and peculiar solution to that problem if you think it is important.” (WILLCOMM)
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