EDUCATION Minister Priya Manickchand has disclosed that more students are now enrolling in the sciences for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate exams (commonly called CXC) which has started and will continue until June.
The Education Minister said she expects Guyana to achieve greater success than before.
In an invited comment, Minister Manickchand said “our students have been enrolling in more subjects and still continue to do better in these subjects than ever before.”
She also noted that “we should as a country celebrate the fact that good CXC results are not being centralised in Georgetown but schools across the country have recently been shining also. This has been the Government’s vision for the education system in our country and it was able to achieve this significant milestone and growth in this sector because of specific and calculated strategic and very conscious investments being made in this sector.”
Manickchand acknowledged, however, that like the rest of the world “we have challenges we face – for example, ‘how do we achieve better results in Mathematics and in English. How do we get more students interested in the science subjects?’ Our team is at present working tirelessly to eradicate these challenges.”
The CSEC examinations are usually taken by students after five years of secondary school, and mark the end of standard secondary education. The CSEC exams are equivalent to the Ordinary Level (‘O’Level) examinations and are targeted at students sixteen years and older. The CSEC examinations are often called the CXC examinations as they were the only examinations offered by the CXC from 1979 until 1998.
Guyana, last year, again etched its name comfortably into the annals of history having attained five of the eight Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)’s awards available to candidates who performed exceptionally Region-wide at the 2013 sitting of the CSEC Examination.
Source: Written By Rebecca Ganesh-Ally https://guyanachronicle.com/2014/05/07/more-students-now-enrolling-in-sciences-for-csec-exams-according-to-education-minister