Though elated that Spanish will be compulsory in schools come September, Education Minister Priya Manickchand says that support is being sought from Cuba and Mexico to help teach the language.
“We are creating materials through NCERD, through our materials production unit that will help us in the absence of a trained Spanish teacher to certain levels in the primary school, in relation to secondary more than 80% of our schools will be able to do Spanish, however we are trying to work with some of our partners like Cuba and Mexico to see if we can get trained teachers, while we train ours”, Manickchand told journalists.
She was speaking on the sidelines of the swearing in on Wednesday of the Commission of Inquiry into the Mahdia dormitory fire.