Weeks after hinting at the possibility of Spanish being taught as a compulsory subject in schools, President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced that this will be a reality beginning September this year.
And while numerous questions will be raised about the Ministry of Education’s capacity to execute such a vision, with some schools not even having enough teachers, Ali hinted at the possibility of importing teachers from other territories.
“As of September, Spanish will be compulsory in our primary school curriculum… I have been told we have adequate capability especially at the secondary level to have this compulsory Spanish taught and we have engaged a number of bilateral partners to loan us human resource assets in this period of transition,” Ali said while responding to a follow up question.