Cabinet Greenlights Sweeping Secondary Education Overhaul — K-12 Pilot Starts January 2026
Get ready, Seychelles — the classroom is about to look very different.
The Cabinet of Ministers, chaired by President Wavel Ramkalawan on Wednesday, 7 May, has officially approved a bold reform of the nation’s secondary education system. The move sets Seychelles on a course to adopt the K-12 structure, a model widely used internationally but until now absent from our local system.
Under the new framework, secondary schooling will be divided into Lower, Middle, and Upper Secondary tiers, with students following academic, technical, or vocational streams based on aptitude and interest.
The plan is no small shift. It’s a comprehensive overhaul meant to better prepare Seychellois students for real-world challenges, whether they’re headed to university, trade school, or straight into the workforce.
The pilot phase is scheduled to begin in January 2026, allowing time for infrastructure upgrades, curriculum development, and—perhaps most importantly—teacher training and stakeholder buy-in.
Education officials have pitched the reform as a long-overdue modernisation of the system. But not everyone may be on board just yet. Questions are already swirling around implementation timelines, resource allocation, and how the new structure will address learning disparities.
Still, the message from Cabinet is clear: the future of education is being rewritten—and Seychelles is turning the page.
More details on pilot schools, curriculum changes, and transition plans are expected in the coming months. One thing is certain: come 2026, it won’t be business as usual in the classroom.
