Framing letter for the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (Josué Agénor Cadet)
Summary: A framing letter sent on 27 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Josué Agénor Cadet at the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
Key Findings
- Opens with measurement rather than reform: a stocktaking of the MENFP's main actions from 2012 to 2016, an evaluation of the impact of the twelve measures taken by the Martelly administration, and an inventory of the school population and available infrastructure to produce statistics that reflect the system as it is.
- Adds disciplines to the curriculum on a date: from September 2017, financial education, sports education and ecology at fundamental and secondary level.
- Sets a ten-year build for the new secondary program, ten reference lycées across the country's ten school departments, and a minimum technical platform in the republic's lycées powered by small solar systems.
- Puts the language of instruction inside the mandate, with a real partnership with the Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen and the Faculty of Applied Linguistics, educational and linguistic planning toward a balanced Creole-French bilingualism, and promotion of multilingualism, alongside more sustained English and Spanish learning in primary and secondary.
- Addresses the teaching profession through recruitment and conditions rather than through training alone: recruitment of teachers and MENFP staff by competitive examination, and reconsideration of their insurance, pension and salary regime.
- Asks for the bill on validation of professional experience, then before the Chamber of Deputies education commission, to be passed, and for an early childhood policy covering protection and education in preschool centers.
- Requires a significant reduction in the disparities of school provision between departments.
Full Description
A framing letter sent on 27 March 2017 by Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant to Josué Agénor Cadet at the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training. It refers back to the general policy statement he put to the Senate on 14 March 2017 and to the Chamber of Deputies on 20 March 2017, then sets out what the ministry is to undertake over the five-year term.
How to cite
Office of the Prime Minister of Haiti, 2017, Framing letter for the Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (Josué Agénor Cadet), http://www.sgcm.gouv.ht/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Feuille-de-route-Ministre-de-l__ducation-Nationale-et-de-la-Formation-Professionnelle.pdf