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As the school year looms just over two weeks away, weighty decisions are in the hands of education authorities.Students, parents and teachers are waiting with bated breath to hear whether there will be a full return to classrooms especially in light of the recent removal of several COVID-19 restrictions including the three-feet distancing rule.When one considers that the country has been moving on with a return to various public gatherings and the like, a full return to face-to-face instruction with all the necessary precautions is not farfetched.But that’s only one challenge.

With the increasing number of students leaving school without certification in the Caribbean, the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) has shared plans to mitigate that. The Citizenship and Technical Education Certificate (CTEC), which is currently being piloted in Montserrat, Jamaica and Guyana, will be the main tool, said CXC Registrar Dr…

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is reporting signs of a return to normalcy for students from Barbados and other Caribbean states and its chief executive officer is calling for an end to confrontation between stakeholders, for students’ sake.Following delays in the sitting of exams, concerns over matriculation to external universities, and challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years, Director of Operations Dr Nicole Manning said on Monday that increased use of CXC’s e-testing mechanism and a decline in the level of hardships experienced by students were a...

TOO MANY STUDENTS are leaving school without certificates, says chief executive officer and registrar of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC), Dr Wayne Wesley. However, he said the agency was doing its best to encourage more students to consider their citizenship and technical education certificate (CTEC) programme, which so far has been piloted in Montserrat, Jamaica and Guyana. “We are concerned that there are a great number of students leaving the …

Castries – The Barbados-based Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) expressed its concern on Monday at “the great number of students” leaving the education system without certification. CXC registrar Dr Wayne Wesley said at the ceremony in St Lucia for the official release of May-June 2022 CXC regional examinations that it was moving towards developing a programme to deal with the situation. “We will continue at the CXC to ensure that a …