Last week I outlined the international and regional stages which gave rise to the Ministry of Education in 2004 crafting the document “Cross Border Career Stretch in the Teaching Profession” which follows. Today and next week, the document itself allows us to view something of the national understandings that surrounded its development and the policy responses that were envisaged at the time.
As you will see, we had redefined the traditional notion of teacher retention. Retention was viewed as the retention of services and loyalty to Guyana and our education system rather than simply the retention of a physical person. Given our country’s position in the international ‘food chain’, i.e. our general relatively poor conditions and
