An Experiment in Education Provision during Economic Hardship: A Third World Example

Abstract

In this paper the author reports on attempts in Trinidad and Tobago to implement a policy of universal secondary education in a project set up in 1988 and based ostensibly on a philosophy of education for all regardless of social class, political affiliation and economic circumstances during a period of economic hardship. From his perspective as a senior planner in the project, the author, who is currently at the University of Western Ontario, offers a penetrating critical examination of the political reasons for change and the ensuing problems of implementation.