P-to-P, April 5, 2024 [AlterPresse] — The Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training (Menfp) has decided to reshuffle the 2023-2024 school calendar in a context of paralysis of schools for several weeks, due to armed gang violence, which has intensified since Thursday February 29, 2024 in the metropolitan area of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
This decision was taken after several working meetings on the progress of the school academic year and the planning of actions to be carried out, with a view to protecting the academic future of students, specifies the Menfp, in a note noted the online agency AlterPresse.
Following the changes made to the dates of the state examinations, the official examinations of the 9th fundamental year scheduled for June 10 to 12, 2024 should take place from Monday 22 to Wednesday July 24, 2024, and those of the Baccalaureate planned for June 24 to 27 are now scheduled to be held from Monday August 5 to Thursday August 8, 2024.
The exams for the Normal School for Teachers (Eni) and the Family Education Center (Cef) should be held from Monday July 22 to Friday July 26, 2024.
The Eni tests were previously planned for June 10 to 14, 2024, while those of Cef were scheduled for June 17 to 21.
Students in the 9th basic year should study new compulsory subjects, such as civic education, physical and sports education, artistic and aesthetic education and education in technology and productive activities, insists the Menfp.
He informs that he has already distributed the programs for these subjects in the 10 departmental education directorates, so that teachers can properly supervise students.
For the first year of evaluation of these 4 new subjects, the Menfp promises to organize a special exam, which should not penalize any student.
The Menfp intends to support all schoolgirls and all schoolboys, to help them pass their exams, by setting up all kinds of educational programs on the radio, on television, on USB keys, on the ministry’s website, and learning compensation course with the presence of teachers everywhere, particularly for the West department and other areas most affected by violence and acts of terror by armed gangs.
It renews its call to all sectors and its partners to protect the right to education of all children and young people, and to protect schools and universities.
“This is the only way to allow children and young people to prepare well for their future,” underlines the Menfp, condemning all attacks against schools and universities.
Heavily armed groups set fire, on Monday March 25, 2024, to the school establishment, called Collège Mixte des Frères Nau in the center of the capital, Port-au-Prince, depriving more than 1,000 children of their right to education. ‘education, denounced the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)in a press release dated Wednesday March 27, 2024.
23 classrooms were set on fire at the Nau Brothers Mixed College in this attack by armed bandits.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) also strongly condemned the acts of vandalism recorded at the National School of Arts (Enarts), the arson of the École Normale Supérieure (Ens) and other educational and cultural institutions in Haiti.
UNESCO calls for an end to attacks against educational institutions in Haiti.
The Ministry of National Education and Vocational Training salutes the work, throughout the country, of school managers, who are doing all they can to continue to support students in their learning, despite numerous difficulties.
Online registration of students and teachers should end on April 12, 2024, Menfp reminds all school managements.
“It is on the Ministry’s website that each school management must complete this formality. This is one of the mandatory requirements for a school to participate in state exams.” [emb rc apr 05/05/2024 11:30]
