Over the past 20 years, Caribbean education has been through several reforms and changes, most of which have sought to address perceived deficits or problems in the system. In very few cases have these efforts sought to fundamentally rethink the function of education in society and articulate the goals of education with the re-shaping of the post-independent Caribbean.  Many of these reforms became projectized initiatives shaped in accordance with prevailing paradigms promoted by the multilaterals and donor agencies.

By Dr Didacus Jules

Historical background
The evolution of Caribbean education systems has followed a path of progressive expansion of access to increasingly higher levels of education from the …..