Education in Haiti

A Haitian student goes into a classroom to take the test for the Bacalaureat (BAC) exams. He looks wounded with a big dressing made out of gauze on the side of his head. BUT it is not a wound. It is a plan to cheat.

If you think it is too late to go back to school, think again! 76-year-old Haitian man Jeudy Jean Horel went back to school to finish high school in Haiti. He just took his State exams in 9ème année fondamentale. That's 4eme secondaire for in the old school system.

Can you believe this? The Haitian ministry of education has identified 92 teachers with fake diplomas teaching in our public schools.

The MIT-Haiti Initiative is a movement to help Haitians learn in the language most of them speak at home, Kreyol...

One of my neighbors in Haiti, let's call him Pierre, he is a local school principal (directeur de l'école). Imagine my surprise when principal Pierre tells me that, for the past 4 years that he's been managing the school as the principal, he's only been paid the salary of a school teacher.

A friend of mine, a high-ranking official in the Haitian government once told me Haiti has a serious human resource problem. He explains...

Can you believe this? At least 90 percent of Haiti's primary schools are non-public. in other words, only 10 percent of the primary schools in Haiti are public schools.

This Monday is the start of the shool year in Haiti. Ready or not, most parents did what they had to do to send their kids back to school but one parent says she is NOT ready.

The academic year 2017 will begin on September 4th in Haiti says the Ministère de l'Education Nationale et de la Formation Professionnelle. (MENFP).

Good news for public school teachers in Haiti... As of October 2017 Haitian public school teachers will see an increase of 20 to 30 percent...