The School of Agriculture, formerly Glanvilles Secondary, is opening next month, announced Cabinet spokesperson Maurice Merchant. Green has begun preparations, and the facility is ready for the new school year. The merger of Glanvilles and Pares Secondary Schools, approved in June due to declining enrolment—163 at Glanvilles and 178 at Pares—will transfer all students to Pares. Teachers will be reassigned or retained. The old Glanvilles site will now house the School of Agriculture, supporting the government’s focus on food security and agricultural education. The site features labs, animal pens, a hydroponic unit, and farm plots, ready for use.
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What’s the reasons or the declining student population?
Food insecurity is a U.N. issue which many have been unable to define or solve.
If Antigua and Barbuda is food insecure; what are the policies and programs to make Antigua and Barbuda food secure.
“Green who? has begun preparations, and the facility is ready for the new school year.”
The school is ready: and so how were the students and the faculty selected?
What are the intended outcomes and how will they be measured?
Is this another big announcement where the only result is a payoff for the faithful?
lets NOT RUSH THIS. WE RATHER IT OPEN LATE AND BE WELL EQUIPPED THAT OPEN EARLY AND THEN ITS NOT FULLY READY
Government must make sure there’s funding and equipment. Agriculture can’t grow if it’s only talk and no investment.
Construction delays have been common. Fingers crossed it’s ready for September.
The success of this school will depend on whether the programs are practical. Students need to learn real farming and agri-business, not just theory.
The CXC Agric Science is quite practical. It is hard to teach “Theoretical Agriculture”.
Isn’t there a prominent official in society that the school could be named off of the school of Agriculture doesn’t sound Prestigious
Good initiative! Good move!
Talk is cheap thought, and we’ve being talking Agriculture, food security, support local farmers for several decades now.
I can recall Tim Hector and his movement proposals and attempts at establishing Community Farm. These didn’t amount to much.
Of course, the Rastafarian Movements with their brands of farming/communes, since the days of One Love west of Hatton area, to Body Pond, Big Creek to Freemans and other scattered sites have tried their best with what little support they’d get publicly or privately, but they are still around working the land.
Lastly are those farms managed by the Chinese of behalf of themselves, but offered up as helping the Nation and its people.
In a nutshell…
A…Agriculture and Aquaculture go together from dealing with the ecology(s) shared by the recycling, processing, packaging, marketing, EDUCATION, preservation etc.
B…neither the AGRICULTURE and AQUACULTURE INDUSTRY and the EDUCATIONAL facilities will operate, produce, thrive at their top to optimum levels unless, and I repeat, UNLESS and UNTIL these industries and institutions are funded, invested in, given the same PERKS, INCENTIVES, CONCESSIONS, as the TOURISM INDUSTRY which by the way will leave more of their profits and monies circulating in the local economy for longer periods of time.
The Green Elephant in the room asks, what businesses are readily available, up and running, thriving which will be absorbing graduates from this Institution?
Good Initiative! Great move! Much, much, much work to be done.
Jumbee Picknee aka Ras Smood
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