The Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training is adding a new subject: “Education for Citizenship” revised and compulsory.
“From the year 2024-2025, the Social Sciences course will be divided into two distinct subjects: History & Geography on the one hand and Citizenship Education” which will be an autonomous subject with distinct and reinforced expected skills . » from preschool to the last year of secondary school. This is one of the main announcements made by the Minister of National Education and Professional Training, Nesmy Manigat, who spoke during the reception of the first class of those admitted to the Master’s program in Management, direction and management of public schools, the Public University of the North in Cap-Haïtien (UPNCH). He made this announcement this Tuesday, October 31 during the launch and welcome ceremony.
This MENFP initiative, announced through a ministerial circular dated April 19, 2023, aims to provide certified professionals to improve school governance and administration of public schools in particular. “You will be the spearheads of the current curricular transformation, one of the objectives of which is to train patriots, citizens proud of their history, their culture and their land,” added Minister Manigat who said he was putting on the agenda ‘Education as a last bastion to invent hope in a context where executives are abandoning the country.
It is this challenge also that the young rector of the UPNCH, Doctor Joram Vixamar, installed in 2022 at the head of this institution, wishes to take and who says he is ready with his staff to take up the challenge of old and new citizens capable of transform the education sector in particular. “We are all committed to honoring the trust that the MENFP placed in the UPNCH, entrusting it with the project of setting up this new university program in partnership with foreign universities. Indeed, a cohort of around fifty public school principals and aspiring principals were admitted as candidates to start this university program.
Speaking on the importance of such an initiative, Doctor Jean-Robert Charles, president of the Conference of Rectors and Presidents of Haitian Universities (CORPUHA) congratulated Minister Manigat for this innovation bringing great transformations both in terms of governance as well as the quality of learning. “The current education system welcomes a larger number of students, but quality remains a challenge,” he acknowledged, reassuring participants of the support of the network of CORPUHA member institutions in this reform for the training of new Haitian citizens.
Several university rectors and deans took part in this activity, in the country’s second city, during this back-to-school period for most of the country’s universities.
