Postpone common entrance, CXC sitting – BUT
With the country moving into another full-scale lockdown, the head of one teachers’ trade union has suggested the Minister of Education defer the Barbados Secondary Schools Entrance Examination (BSSEE) and the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)’s May/June sitting.
In an interview with Barbados TODAY, President of the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) Pedro Shepherd declared on Friday the union wants realistic targets set for the remainder of the school year, as a gruelling second wave of COVID-19 keeps students away from their physical classrooms.
Students have lost almost a year of “proper” teaching owing to inadequate infrastructure for online instruction, he declared.