CXC results released – Minor decline in mathematics due to lack of teachers
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- Published on Friday, 12 August 2011 07:23
- Written by Tracy Khan-Drakes
Guyana has improved its performance at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC) in several subject areas, however according to Education Minister, Shaik Baksh there has been a minor decline in the overall pass rate for 2011. Minister Baksh explained that this year’s overall pass rate is 64.4% as against last year’s 66.2%,, however he assures that the ministry will continue to put systems in place to improve student’s performance.
The top ranking schools for 5 or more subjects at one sitting grades 1 to 3 are Bishop’s High, Queen’s College, President’s College, St. Roses High, Annandale Secondary and St. Joseph High. This is according to Minister Baksh, he added that the top private schools in the same area are Saraswati Vidya Nikitan, Marian Academy, Isa Islamic School, Jocelle Academy, Mae’s and the Hindu College. He noted that the decline in mathematics this year is because of the shortage of trained teachers.
“One of the factors that may have contributed to this is the shortage of mathematics teacher and I’ve gone out there and stated that we need to have mathematics teachers, graduate trained mathematics teachers and I intended to peruse the recruitment of a number of mathematics teachers from overseas cause as I see it in the short run we need to boost up the system especially in our hinterland rural community schools.”
This year’s top students are Anuradha Dev with 15 grades one’s from Queens College, while Shalita Appadu of New Amsterdam Multilateral came in second with 15 grades 1, and Mariesa Jagnanan, Jonelle James and Asaf Mohamed gained14 grade ones all of Queens College. On the other hand, Minister Baksh said there has been significant improvement in this year’s Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) results with an 82.5% pass rate this year as against 80.4% in 2010.
“So we have done exceedingly well, we are awaiting data from the Caribbean Examination Council to see how other territories performed in terms of the overall pass rate so we can have a good comparison between Guyana and the other territories.”
