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by Bajan Reporter / May 27th, 2021
This is a sad sad day for CARICOM and particularly our children.
We are Not Impressed.
We continue to be Embarrassed. Ashamed. As we have been for
EIGHT MONTHS. We are Hurting for our stress-ridden children, both from C19 context and CXC’s cruelty, whose pain has been utterly ignored by CXC who has been enabled by
CARICOM/COHSOD. Indeed, our children’s emotional and other well-being has been sacrificed on the altar of ‘
Exam integrity/equivalency/pedagogical rigour‘.
CARICOM/CXC appears to be proud to be unique worldwide, in being unable to find the innovation, technical ability, responsiveness, to fundamentally amend its School Exit Assessments in response to the C19 pandemic stressors, deep stress of children and teachers, and online schooling challenges and inequities – primary and secondary school – which CARICOM/CXC had at least 6 months to plan for. We have learned nothing from the 2020 Exam Fiasco and apparently plan to
Local stakeholders are grateful UNICEF asked the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) to adjust testing methodologies for its Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) exams. And both the spokesperson for the Group of Concerned Parents Barbados, the Regional Coalition for CXC Exam Redress, Paula-Anne Moore, and student advocate Khaleel Kothdiwala believe if the regional body had listened to their lobbying, they could have avoided the “embarrassment”. …
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Article by May 26, 2021
The two main teachers’ trade unions are banking on the expression of concern from UNICEF about this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) to push the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) to reform the exams as they have been prescribing for more than a year.
The Barbados Secondary Teachers’ Union (BSTU) on Tuesday noted that while Minister of Education Santia Bradshaw has recently been advocating for much-needed adjustments to the structure of this year’s exams, she has failed to attract the support of her regional counterparts.
May 24, 2021
United Nations children’s agency (UNICEF) on Monday urged the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) not to proceed with this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations in their current form and has called on education ministers to intervene urgently.
In a strong statement, Four UNICEF representatives – Aloys Kamuragiye, for Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Alison Parker of Belize, Jamaica’s Mariko Kagoshima and Nicolas Pron for Guyana and Suriname – recommended that the regional examining body make adjustments to the content and administration of the exams to ensure students are not disadvantaged.
They declared: “These are unprecedented times and will collectively require us to adapt and recreate normalcy and routine, for the many lives disrupted. A moment like this calls for innovative approaches, to stem the effects of COVID-19 on generations to come.”