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by Bajan Reporter / April 7th, 2021
JOINT MEDIA STATEMENT MARKING 6 MONTHS AFTER THE RELEASE OF CXC’s 2020 CSEC AND CAPE GRADES, FROM THE REGIONAL COALITION FOR CXC EXAM REDRESS
Why is CARICOM apparently enabling CXC’s continued callousness towards our region’s children?
We note that there are similarities, relating to institutional callousness, between the ongoing CXC crisis and others involving children throughout the region (eg the Government Industrial School in Barbados).
22 March 2021, marked Six Months since the release of CXC’s 2020 Exam Grades, which significantly disadvantaged so many children in Barbados and CARICOM. These children may have been a minority, but they are no less important than the majority, and they deserve adult advocacy and resolution.
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CXC Exams scheduled: SVGTU raises concern
The SVGTU panel at last Friday’s press conference (l-r): Andrew John, Oswald Robinson and Fiona Charles.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Union (SVGTU) has registered its concern that local education officials have accepted the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) schedule for the 2021 the CSEC and CAPE exams, and the Council’s reversion to the pre-2020 format, without involving the Teachers’ Union in that decision-making process.
President of the SVGTU Oswald Robinson made the concern known during a press conference hosted by his Union last Friday, during which he also chided the CXC for being overly taken up with getting the exams done.
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