MOE & ALTA UNITE
A renewed push to tackle a stubborn national issue, with an estimated one in four adults in Trinidad and Tobago grappling with low literacy. The Ministry of Education and the Adult Literacy Tutors Association (ALTA) have joined forces, aiming to reverse that trend.
Education Minister, Doctor Michael Dowlath, on August 12 welcomed an ALTA delegation led by its founder, Doctor Paula Lucie-Smith, to Education Towers. The top agenda item was forging a stronger, more collaborative partnership. For more than thirty years, ALTA has provided free, structured literacy programmes using trained volunteer tutors.
Today’s meeting focused on combining ALTA’s proven, 30-year community-based methodology with the Ministry’s national reach and digital transformation goals. Officials discussed leveraging technology to make literacy instruction more accessible across the nation.
