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Rise to Help Education Soar

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Education researchers have initiated a project that is expected to revolutionise teaching in this region. Officials involved in the Research Initiative for Supporting Education in the Caribbean (RISE Caribbean) said it will immediately impact an estimated 1,500 leaders in education, 10,000 teachers, and 200,000 students in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.            The project, which is being coordinated by the School of Education in the Faculty of Humanities and Education, involves the re-establishment of a research facility within the faculty, with an expanded mandate to inform education planning, policies and practice in the Eastern Caribbean and Barbados.     

The new Caribbean Educational Research Centre replaces the Education Evaluation Centre that was dormant for over a decade.  Some US$3.6 million in funding is being provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), with an additional US$3 million in support provided by The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. Another partner, the University of South Florida, is assisting with capacity building through mentorship and training. Personnel at the Eastern Caribbean Joint Board of Teacher Education will receive training in research that would result in them being part of research teams engaged across the subregion. 

Co-authors of the project proposal include Director of the School of Education at Cave Hill, Professor S. Joel Warrican; his colleagues Dr. Coreen Leacock and Dr. Verna Knight; along with Associate Professor at the College of Education, University of South Florida, Dr. Patriann Smith. 

Already, research is underway on the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on students’ learning experiences, which the principal investigators say appears to have widened the inequalities in education in the Caribbean and exposed the urgent need to examine the current models of education to make them more equitable and resilient in times of crisis. 

The RISE Caribbean initiative gives regional context to the global challenges facing school children due to school closures, the learning gaps, loss of socialisation skills; rising levels of anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges.
 
 

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