The Government of Antigua and Barbuda must establish the following educational objectives within global standards and equivalencies:

• Design institutions within a relevant, comprehensive educational system premised on excellence, for lifelong learning.
• Create educational institutions to foster spiritual, cultural, moral, intellectual, physical, social and economic development of the society;
• Present varied curricula for the development of skills, knowledge, civic and democratic values;
• Provide a flexible service delivery mechanism, including the use of information and communication technology to foster employability, personal growth and social commitment;
• Ensure the certification of skills acquired on the job;
• Promote transparent school management in the interest of securing adequate and stable allocation of resources, which will allow educational institutions to play a leading role as agents for change.
• Enhance the performance of teachers by improving their conditions of service.
• Popularise science and technology as necessary to advance the establishment and consolidation of a scientific culture.
• Organize a system of education, which strives to maintain practical, ethical and attitudinal responses to the evolving global labour market requirements by all participants.
• Develop a national training delivery system appropriate to national conditions and practices.

The comprehensive system will embrace all levels from schooling to graduation to the world of work, thereby encompassing the first twenty-one years of life:

• Entry at age 5
• Completion of Primary Education at age 12
• Completion of Secondary/Junior Secondary at age 18
• Completion of Junior College by age 21
• Completion of College by age 22
  

Strategic Structural Response