By Patrick N. Tokpah (Bong contributor)
Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor has boasted that the CDC-led government has employed or placed on payroll over 1, 500 new public school teachers across the country.
Liberia’s first female Vice President said dozens of Technical Vocational Education and Training Centers (TVET) have been renovated and equipped while thousands of students are beneficiaries of local and international scholarships, among others.
The Vice President however stressed that to be successful and able to grasp the rare opportunities ahead, the country must rethink the way it teaches, the use of curriculum, the need for new-age infrastructure and digital portals, the approach to gender equality, and national equity.
Liberia’s Vice President who made the statement on March 27, 2023, when she addressed the Joint Education Sector Review opening section in Ganta, Nimba County identified some of their gains as the President’s flagship initiative, the free WASSCE and tuition for public universities and college programs that are continuing uninterrupted.
“Let me state that with the gains that have been achieved in education under this government and the clear roadmap which has been laid, it is with all certainty that if this trajectory is scrupulously followed, holistically education will be the underlying factor for the transformation of Liberia at all levels” VP Howard-Taylor asserted.
Quoting the UNESCO Institute of Statistics, VP Howard-Taylor recollected on the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, which negatively impact the world as it forced over 1.5 billion to drop out of school, thus impacting more than 87% of the world’s enrolled learners.
The Vice President opined that education is the master key to the delivery of better national plans and programs citing elections which noted is the only route to peaceful coexistence, unity, national development, and growth.
Madam Taylor further praised the government for remaining committed to ensuring the fulfillment of all its educational deliverables and programs.
The tough-talking Vice President revealed that the construction and renovation of multiple schools across the country remained on course
