Jamaica’s Education ministry recruiting foreign teachers for new academic year

Jamaica’s Ministry of Education and Youth is in the process of recruiting teachers from overseas to fill the gaps left by massive teacher resignations. This will be one of the many retentions strategies use by the ministry for the 2024/25 academic year, which begins in September.

Acting Chief Education Officer, Terry-Ann Thomas Gayle, advised that teachers are being sought from various countries.

“We currently have engaged Nigeria, Ghana, the Philippines and India. So, we are looking all over,” she said in response to a question posed during the ministry’s Region Six 2024 Back-to-School Conference at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston today.

The conference was held under the theme ‘Shaping the Future: STEM/STEAM and the Transformation Agenda’.

In an effort to aid schools with the recruitment process, last year the Education ministry dispatched various strategies weeks in advance of the academic year.