education

December 8, 2014
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Enhance students’ analytical skills urge Patterson

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Dec.7, 2014 – The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) and other regional education stakeholders have been challenged to further restructure the curricula and tests for students to significantly enhance their ability to thoroughly analyze questions and problems, and come up with practical answers and solutions. This charge came from former Prime Minister, the Most Hon. P.J. Patterson, as he…
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November 3, 2014
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CXC to launch online store

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) in collaboration with Macmillan will launch CXC’s online commercial presence called the CXC Store at http://www.cxc-store.com on Friday 7 November during a concert in Jamaica. The launch will be held at Jamaica College auditorium starting at 10:00 am with over 350 students from schools across Jamaica in attendance. The CXC online store http://www.cxc-store.com, will be…
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September 10, 2014
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Caribbean Maritime Institute to offer Three Full Tuition Scholarships to Antigua and Barbuda Nationals

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda – 10th September, 2014……..The Port Management Association of the Caribbean (PMAC) has funded a team of Port Consultants out of Jamaica to give the Antigua and Barbuda Government advice on the Port Development Modernization Project. The delegation is comprised of the Executive Director of the Caribbean Maritime Institute Dr. Fritz Pinnock, the Honourable Noel Hylton…
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September 9, 2014
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Government launches five-year literacy strategic plan

GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Sept 9, CMC – Guyana has launched a five-year literacy strategic plan that it said is aimed at ensuring that children are literate by Grade Four, through consistent home, school and community involvement programmes. Education Minister Priya Manickchand said a child’s ability to read would create opportunities for academic and vocational success and urged the population to play…
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August 27, 2014
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CXC expanding

The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has outgrown the region. “We have been in the Caribbean for many years. We have expanded as much as we can within the Caribbean. We need now to share our experiences beyond the Caribbean into other areas, into other countries and in the Diaspora and so on,” stated Acting Registrar of the CXC Glenroy Cumberbatch.…
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August 25, 2014
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Solving the education challenge

TWO pieces of information published over the last couple of days or so highlight the challenges that some Caribbean countries are facing when it comes to financing higher education. In the climate of economic difficulties that these small islands continue to experience they are going to be hardpressed in finding adequate solutions to deal with the financing of education. Yesterday…
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February 28, 2014
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CARICOM and Canada Assist Suriname to Incorporate Regional Integration and the CSME into School Curricula

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Approximately four hundred teachers in Suriname will be trained on the operations of the Caribbean Community and CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The sessions begin on Monday 3 March, 2014 at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Paramaribo and will run until 24 March, 2014. The activity in Suriname falls under the CARICOM Trade…
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June 14, 2013
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New after-school project launched for CARICOM youths

Young people in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will benefit from an after-school programme designed to use creative techniques to reduce at-risk behaviours, increase health-related awareness, impact educational aspirations, self-esteem and social connectedness among the youth in all CARICOM Member States. Framed through a partnership among the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) sub-regional Office in Barbados, the CARICOM Secretariat and the…
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March 12, 2010
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EDUCATION AND JOBS A PRIORITY SAYS HAITI’S PRESIDENT

(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Without the assistance of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) even with its limited financial resources, and the resources of the international community, Haiti would not be able to recover from the catastrophic earthquake that hit the country earlier this year, H.E Rene Preval, President of Haiti said Friday. Haiti has been one of the major…
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January 29, 2010
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Haiti’s Youth Ambassador Appeals To Cohsod: Let Us Rise And Re-build The Education System

CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Haiti’s CARICOM Youth Ambassador, Leticia Cadet, on Thursday, made an impassioned plea to the Caribbean Community to help re-build, as a matter of priority, the education system in Haiti. At a special meeting of the Council for Human and Social Development (COHSOD) in Paramaribo, Suriname, Ms Cadet recalled with obvious grief the devastation caused…
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