Friday, April 24, 2026

‘Alter maths teachers pay’

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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)

Please read the full story in today’s Daily Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

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