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Education Minister: Adjusting CSEC, CAPE would be hard
Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly
EDUCATION Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly has said the recommendations made by the United Nations Children s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) to make adjustments for students sitting CSEC and CAPE exams would be difficult to adopt.
Gadsby-Dolly said the Caribbean Examinations Council CXC has said to adopt the recommendations made by the Caribbean Union of Teachers and supported by UNICEF would incur significant costs and push the exams back to a July 26 start.
In a text message on Wednesday the minister said, “This is viewed by most countries as difficult due to the domino effect it would have on the release of results and students matriculation into universities, Form Six etc.”
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Port of Spain – Minister of Education Nyan Gadsby-Dolly announced Thursday that the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) examination, which had been scheduled for June 10, has been postponed to July 1 due to the recent surge in COVID-19 cases.
“This has become necessary due to the trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing challenges posed by the health regulations at this time,” she said at a post-Cabinet press conference where she gave the update on the exam which is done by primary school children to determine their admission to public secondary school.
Gadsby-Dolly noted that when initial stakeholder consultations were held on April 22, the COVID-19 seven-day average for Trinidad and Tobago was 89, with new cases at 81.
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Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) to be held on June 10th, 2021
The Ministry of Education wishes to confirm that the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) will be held on June 10th, 2021. In arriving at this decision, the Ministry consulted with key stakeholders, including the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA), principals, teachers, parents and students.
While the prevailing view is that students would benefit from a few weeks of face to face preparation before the examination, and consideration was given to postponement to possibly facilitate this, the fact is that there is no certainty of that becoming a reality, even if the examination were to be postponed.