Education Minister Priya Manickchand has followed up the decision taken by the Education Ministry to introduce a new pilot programme to further improve students’ performances in Mathematics and English at the Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate (CSEC) examinations, with the commencement of an outreach programme to the various schools selected to be part of the initiative.
Education Minister Priya Manickchand speaking to students of the Anna Regina Multilateral School
The outreach is aimed at informing students, parents and teachers about the new initiative being piloted over a five-month period in 32 secondary schools throughout the country.
The programme is designed to improve students’ performance in Mathematics and English by 20 per cent at the upcoming May/June CSEC 2012 examinations.
Minister Manickchand accompanied by Chief Education Officer Olato Sam on Friday, December 16 visited Abram Zuil, Anna Regina Multilateral and Aurora secondary schools where she informed stakeholders of the four key players involved in the pilot project: her ministry, teachers, students and parents.
“Each student in the selected schools in Region Two will be provided with all the needed materials to make them achieve good grades, including scientific calculators, Mathematics and English text books, past examination papers, revision DVDs, geometry sets and a dictionary,” Minister Manickchand said.
Teachers, she said, have fully endorsed the new initiative and have been working with the ministry to initiate new programmes to further improve students’ grades.
“The ministry could provide all the materials and the teachers could teach all they want, but if you, the students, do not come to school and focus on your books, then it is not going to make any difference in your grade,” Minister Manickchand told students.
In this regard, she urged them to commit their attention and focus on their books for the next five months.
The new initiative is in sync with government’s plans to transform the education system into one that prepares the next generation of Guyanese with all the skills required for tomorrow’s world.
Minister Manickchand prior to the outreaches also met with heads of the targeted schools.
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