The principal of Coleridge & Parry School, Vincent Fergusson, said yesterday that schools in Barbados had become increasingly difficult to manage.
He therefore recommended that the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development should provide opportunities for all principals to be trained in matters of human resources, focusing on management or public speaking.
Addressing the St Peter school’s speech day function, Fergusson said: “Today’s principals have to manage a five-prong attack (and I am not speaking of cricket) comprising the Ministry of Education and Human Resource Development, board of management, teachers, students and last but not least parents.
“Very often some section of that attack is bearing down on the principal, and he/she has to be able to competently manage those situations. If the principal gets it wrong he/she can be in for public ridicule by an ever increasing critical public,” he said. (AH)
