BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has announced plans to meet with the Ministers of Education across to region to discuss concerns raised about the suspension of syllabus for four technical subjects.
The CXC says the public will be updated on the outcome of the meeting, scheduled for June 4 .
In commenting on this development, Jamaica’s education minister Fayval Williams said officials in the country have constantly reiterated the importance of the continued certification of the subjects.
“Having registered the concerns of our principals and other concerned Jamaicans, in no uncertain terms, we will be meeting with CXC, along with other regional education ministers…to address concerns with respect to the discontinuance or suspension policy. CXC also indicated that it would like to address critical matters relating to the administration and the release of results for the May, June 2024 exams,” said Williams who was during a press briefing on Wednesday.
“I would like to note as well that across the Caribbean, other colleague education ministers are very concerned about this discontinuance decision. And as a body, we have decided to take the matter to the Council for Human and Social Development, a committee of the CARICOM, which seeks to promote and develop coordinated policies and programmes,” she said.
CXC recently announced that it will no longer be awarding certification for Green Engineering, Agricultural Science (double award), Mechanical Engineering and Electrical and Electronic Engineering, due to low enrolment.
But according to Williams, it should be left to countries across the region to decide whether the CXC should continue to offer certification for the subjects in question.
