The Troubling Reality of Teachers Who Cannot Read or Write

The Rector of the Public University of Grand’Anse in Jérémie (UPGA), Jean Rony Medy, revealed that he found that in 2021, nearly 90% of the 300 teachers who took part in a training program in the department could “neither read nor write.”

According to Jean Rony Medy, this finding was made at the end of a training program organized by the Directorate of Training and Professional Development and funded by the National Education Fund (FNE). The training brought together first- and second-cycle teachers who had no initial training in the f