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The matriculation requirement of five subjects including English and Mathematics is the Ministry of Education’s clear focus
Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News editorial entitled ‘Hypocrisy in Education‘ (August 12), is highly insulting and fraught with inaccuracies. Unquestionably,…
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Perpetrating illiteracy
The recent results of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations have given us cause for retrospection and what we are…
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Mathematics, English pilot project…. CONTRIBUTES TO SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN GRADES ONE TO THREE CSEC PASSES
EDUCATION MINISTER, Priya Manickchand, has said that the Mathematics and English pilot project which ran over a four-month period of…
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Education Ministry vehemently condemns razing of One-Mile Primary in Linden -830 students now school-less
THE Ministry of Education in a press release yesterday condemned the burning of the One-Mile Primary School at Linden, the…
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Manickchand scorches One Mile Primary arsonists
…lambastes politicians advancing “wild, undemocratic agendas” “To burn a school is to remove the most necessary tool of poverty alleviation…To…
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Education Minister heartened with results of Math, English pilot programme
Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has finally responded to critics, asserting that her Ministry’s ambitious programme to improve Mathematics and…
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The pilot project in Maths and English A
It is refreshing to see ministerial initiative embedded in a results-oriented framework and targeted at enhancing service to the public. …
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67% failure rate in maths triggers regional call for action
An alarming 67% of students failed Mathematics at the May/June Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations this year, triggering a…
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Maths, English passes continue to plummet -pilot school project to be widened, Manickchand announces
Guyana’s performances have worsened in Mathematics and English A at the recent May/June Caribbean Secondary Education Certification (CSEC) examinations, with…
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Manickchand against corporal punishment but says public must be fully consulted
Education Minister Priya Manickchand says while she is personally against corporal punishment being administered in schools many parents do not…
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