The Ministry of Education Sports and Culture will seek teachers' and school principals' views on proposed education reforms and curriculum review to ascertain whether they are appropriate. 

M.E.S.C. Chief Executive Officer, Aeau Christopher Hazelman, highlighted that the impact of the proposed changes will be felt by the people whose work will be the most affected which are staff and principal.

The initial curriculum review consultations, according to the C.E.O. is specifically for the primary schools, which will then continue for the secondary schools after the contents are sorted at the primary level.

"The goal of the curriculum review consultations is to retract the interpretations of the teachers and principals because they are the ones who are doing the job mostly, how they observe the current syllabus and terminology used if needs to be reviewed," Aeau said.

"It's our way of preparing for the next academic year, so every year we have these reviews and consultations to look at areas, that need to be reviewed and so forth."

Aeau said the review is an annual consultation made compulsory by the Ministry to ensure that the staff and principals' views are not taken for granted.

He added that with the Covid-19 pandemic having a huge impact on the education sector, the review will identify if there will be any major changes that need to be made.

The recently appointed C.E.O. in previous interviews with the media said the decision to review the reforms followed major concerns expressed by several school principals.

In 2020 the former Administration through the Cabinet approved changes to dissolve Year 13 classes for all schools across Samoa, in order to condense the secondary school years of schooling into four from the current five.

Acknowledging the concerns expressed by the school principals, Aeau said a review of the reforms was the subject of consultations with teachers and school principals.