(Jamaica Gleaner) Come the new academic year, the Ministry of Education will begin to roll out a specific tutorial programme tailored for boys, which will be more practical-oriented.
Speaking at the education ministry’s Heroes Circle offices in Kingston on Friday, Clement Radcliffe, acting chief education officer, revealed that there was mounting pressure to address the issue of why boys continue to perform below par.
For several years, there has been a growing concern that boys continue to lag behind girls academically, with examination results at all levels consistently having the girls outdoing the boys two to one.
“The Ministry of Education has been utilising all their efforts to determine how boys learn from the data that we have been reviewing. We have also been looking at international research and trends, and these will be used to determine the methodologies which will be used going forward,” said Radcliffe.
He said the results of the research indicated that boys do indeed learn differently from girls, and that they responded to a practical-oriented curriculum, delivering much better results.
