Professor Yadira Pino, from the Federation of Workers and Educators of Panama delved this Thursday morning into the country’s situation in education and the priorities that must be carried out within the sector.
He emphasized that “in our country we really lack administrative management based on planning and socio-educational indicators that allow public policies to be determined, and that allows for effective results, which is what is required.
“The figures that are in charge of the ministerial portfolios are not people who have reached these positions due to demonstrated public administration capacity, that they are aware of the problems,” he added.
He stressed that there is a big problem in the operation of this management and, in the case of MEDUCA, because it is a large institution, there are duplicate departments with officials with high salaries.
On the other hand, he mentioned that there is no real evaluation of the problem and that the only ones evaluated are the teachers.
«The priority would be, not only to allocate 6% of the Gross Domestic Product, because in the end the money is allocated, we do not see that coming, the solutions are not given and the problems continue. What we require is an institutional change; that is, the operation of the Ministry of Education is changed so that it is efficient, transparent and timely », he concluded.
