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Leader of the United National Congress Kamla Persad-Bissessar has a plan for doctors who are unable to find employment in the medical system.


She made the revelation during the party's Town Hall Meeting in San Fernando West on Monday, where there was a focus on problems with the school curriculum.


Alicia Boucher has the details.
Transcript
00:00University graduates being unable to find jobs in their fields of study. It's
00:05been a topic of a discussion in some quarters. Well, it comes up again as
00:10opposition leader Kamala Prasad Bissessa refers to the UNC's education manifesto.
00:15We know there are about 500 doctors who have been trained and cannot get a job.
00:21I have a proposal that we replace a doctor either in a cluster of schools or
00:26in the largest schools there'll be a doctor and a nurse in every one of the
00:30largest schools. In this way we can pick up early signs of physical disability,
00:39mental disabilities, but we can also pick up issues of abuse, physical abuse,
00:46bullying, sexual abuse. On another note the UNC panelists believe that the
00:51school curriculum is lacking and should be tailored to address areas like the
00:55food import bill, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy in catering for
01:00today's work environment. According to education consultant and former
01:05principal of Naparima Boys College, Dr. Michael Dowlath, enough is not being done
01:11to ensure that students meet what he calls the minimum standards. He cites
01:16examinations as a gauge. In 2024, at the secondary school level, 45.55% of the
01:25students who sat the exams received a full certificate. That is 6,393. But in
01:352019, you started off with 18,844 students who passed the SEA exam. What
01:44happened to that 13,451? So when you look at it, one in three students actually
01:51achieved the minimum success. As the panelists know that infrastructural
01:56problems at schools can impact the delivering of the curriculum by classes
02:00sometimes being rotated or canceled, Dr. Dowlath says online learning can be used
02:06in the interim. I am a student of Prisail Secondary School, a Form 2 student. I have
02:12not been able to go to school for the last six weeks because of a rat
02:16infestation in the school. I have been disadvantaged because when it's time
02:21for exam, nobody wants to know that I was not able to go to school and I now have
02:28to put a burden on my parents to send me to private lessons. And who is the MP for
02:32Prisail, please? Have you done anything about it? Okay, send a release. You may have to do
02:38more than a release. You may have to gather the parents to file a motion in the
02:43Parliament. You need to get proactive. This is really so intolerable.
02:49Alicia Boucher, TV6 News.
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