Dr Angela Brown-Burke
The Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is urging the Government to make representation on behalf of Jamaican students to allow them to defer all aspects of their Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) examinations until January or June of 2022.
In making the call, PNP Spokesman on Education and Training, Dr Angela Brown-Burke, said her concern comes in light of complaints from students and teachers that contrary to previous understandings, students who initially thought they had the ability to defer are now being told that the rule only applies to written exams, and that SBAs (School-based Assessment) should still be submitted this year.
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To commemorate International Women’s Day 2021, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) is featuring (in the month of March) influential female policy makers from several countries they work in around the world to highlight their experiences working in government and promoting a culture of evidence-based policymaking within their institutions, how the COVID-19 pandemic changed their work, and what long-term impacts they hope to achieve in the sectors in which they work.
From Ghana, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) spoke to the Executive Director/Inspector-General of Schools, Dr. Haggar Hilda Ampadu who directs the National Schools Inspectorate Authority. In this capacity, she is responsible for creating, institutionalizing, and overseeing the establishment, registration, licensing, inspections, and assessments of Ghana’s all public and private pre-tertiary schools in Ghana. Upon assuming her role as the Inspector General of Schools/Executive Director, she has worked to creat
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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.