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AS A result of the general decline in overall performance at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examinations and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE), Registrar of the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), Dr. Didacus Jules outlined some steps that should be undertaken to improve performance in the future.  At the official launch of the May/June […]

There has been a significant decline in the performance of CSEC students around the region this year in English A, with 47% achieving grades 1-3, while only a few candidates were able to score full marks on each Math paper. This was disclosed yesterday at the Guyana International Conference Centre at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara,  […]

–    offended by Minister’s school arson statement “We came here today because the Minister of Education, in the wake of the arson that was carried out on a school in Linden, promptly pointed fingers at the Linden protesters, when in fact the people of Linden were the ones who arrested the alleged arsonists and turned […]

Dear Editor, The Kaieteur News editorial entitled ‘Hypocrisy in Education‘ (August 12), is highly insulting and fraught with inaccuracies.  Unquestionably, the information provided for the media in 2012 was far more comprehensive than in previous years.  Each year, there are extensive discussions regarding what should be released and the structure of same.   These discussions/debates […]

The recent results of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate examinations have given us cause for retrospection and what we are seeing only leaves us more depressed than the previous year. For starters, we continue to experience horrendous performances in Mathematics and English—the language we are supposed to be speaking at the drop of a hat. […]

EDUCATION MINISTER, Priya Manickchand, has said that the Mathematics and English pilot project which ran over a four-month period of January to May this year facilitated a significant increase in Grades One to Three passes in 18 of the schools in which it was implemented. Speaking of the results of this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate […]

THE Ministry of Education in a press release yesterday condemned the burning of the One-Mile Primary School at Linden, the largest primary school in Region 10 (Upper Demerara/Upper Bebrice), which left 830 Guyanese children school-less.  According to the press release, the burning down of the school will not only affect the innocent children, but it will […]

…lambastes politicians advancing “wild, undemocratic agendas”  “To burn a school is to remove the most necessary tool of poverty alleviation…To have burnt One Mile Primary is to attempt to condemn all the children attending that school to a life of poverty” – Education Minister   Education Minister Priya Manickchand yesterday swiftly condemned the torching of […]

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has finally responded to critics, asserting that her Ministry’s ambitious programme to improve Mathematics and English at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination has been heartening.  The Minister has revealed that while the performances in the two subject areas have declined Caribbean-wide, the 26 schools in which the […]

It is refreshing to see ministerial initiative embedded in a results-oriented framework and targeted at enhancing service to the public.  There isn’t nearly enough of it and the truth is that ministerial impact has been overshadowed for the last 20 years by the command and control style of the PPP executive both in the Office […]