Baksh defends education reforms

Minister Shaik Baksh says government has “implemented significant reforms” in the education sector over the last five years and has reaped the benefits with top NGSA and CXC scores, while dismissing calls from the opposition political parties for the revamping of the sector as “uninformed statements.”

In his address at the launch of the Voluntary Mentoring Programme on Friday, Baksh said numerous interventions at primary and secondary schools “and the hard work of the ministry’s team, headed by Chief Education Officer Olato Sam, have been bearing fruit.”