Tag: education
Vaccine not mandatory for return to school
Students and staff will not be required to be vaccinated in order to return to school plants this year.
In addition, general assemblies and the...
Call for maths review
With the perennial issue of poor pass rates for mathematics rearing its head once more in this year’s Caribbean Examination Council’s (CXC) suite of...
St John and Abed among 16 to receive honorary UWI degrees
Kingston – Sir Richie Richardson. Robert “Lord Nelson” Nelson. Alston “Becket” Cyrus. Dr Joy St John. Adam Stewart. Ambassador Gabriel Abed.
They are among 16...
BUT calls for beefed-up security at schools
GOVERNMENT IS BEING urged to increase security at schools as soon as possible.
President of the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT), Rudy Lovell, made that...
‘Don’t waste education’
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...
CXC concerned at students leaving school without certification
Castries – The Barbados-based Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) expressed its concern on Monday at “the great number of students” leaving the education system without...