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Nov 16, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
At the last CXC Exams, the West Coast Demerara School, the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN), was outstanding in its total results, doing much better than most of the traditional “super” schools of Georgetown.
Someone had written a letter giving reasons for SVN’s remarkable achievement (e.g. banning private lessons), and advocating that the school be studied by the Caribbean Exams Council and by the Ministry of Education.
The one important factor in achieving such remarkable results by SVN which the letter-writer omitted to mention was the fact that the school methodically carries out its own teacher-training programes, both locally and overseas.
I recently came across a past newspaper of July 2012 where there was a report that the school was able to enjoy the confidence and gracious generosity of the Ramnarayan family of the USA who granted full scholarships to three students of Saraswati Vidya Niketan to pursue degrees at first class American colleges.
These students have now returned and are teaching at SVN. The school has also provided scholarships for Cyril Potter training. Accordingly SVN is building up a high grade professional teaching staff reminiscent of the old Queen’s College.
All secondary schools need to take a page out of SVN’s book and the Ministry of Education should induce them to help themselves and not to sit aimlessly waiting on Government-sponsored scholarships.
It may profit the Ministry to try to keep in close contact with Swami Aksharanand who is committed to raising moral and educational standards of Guyana and who is successfully doing so.
Name Withheld

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