Currently the Ministry of Education and Human Resources Department in the Solomon Islands is planning to continue with in-service professional development for teachers in two more provinces with the aim of increasing the number of teachers with certification.
Teachers seeking "board certification" in their specialty must clear a number of hurdles, from subject matter tests to evaluation of classroom performances.
This is the vision of a growing number of education reformers who feel that the standard certification system no longer works in today's fast-changing job market.
After local governments decided to pursue LEED certification for their own buildings, there was an uptick in the number of local architects, general contractors, and other construction industry professionals who sought LEED accreditation.
The participants from the provinces and Federal Government evolved a number of recommendations to push forward accreditation of teacher education programmes and certification and licensing of teachers in the country.