Anticipations of the 2014 budget: Education

Further cuts

 

Budgeting for education ought to be a simple task for the administration.  It is working with a national strategic plan that clearly sets out the goals for education and the strategies to achieve them.  The most recent plan expired in 2013 and a new plan is in the works.

Despite the transition, the administration should have a very good idea of what to spend money on in 2014.  The budget proposal cannot ignore the reality that several of the goals of the strategic plan of 2008-2013 remain relevant and, in many respects, unfulfilled.  Notwithstanding