Region Six administration satisfied with CSEC results

Aug 25, 2015 News

With several students copping top spots in this year’s CSEC examinations, this publication caught up with the Regional Chairman of Region Six, David Armogan, and he expressed his views on the performance of students from Berbice.
He stated that “we are satisfied with the results, because it is a little better than last year and we keep getting better every year, and that is important; that is really the whole idea behind the education push that we have been making in the region to ensure that we can do a little bit better every year”.
He further stressed that this year compared to last year the region saw a 67% improvement in the results, with Berbice High moving ahead as the top school in the region with 86% passes from grades 1-3, with New Amsterdam Multilateral coming out with 82%.
Armogan also noted that the J.C. Chandisingh Secondary which did exceptionally well last year saw a decrease this year, he pointed out that they will be focusing on improving that school to bring it back to its former glory.
Another school that has been doing well is the Skeldon Line Path Secondary with 70-odd percent. The best graduating student came from New Amsterdam Multilateral. According to Armogan “we continue to see good performances from schools that continue to do well over the years and we don’t seem to be able to bring up the performances of some of these schools that continue to do badly”.
Schools like Skeldon High, formerly known as the Skeldon Lutheran School, was a high performing institution along the Corentyne and today that school has dropped to the lowest level in performance in the region.
The chairman reiterated that the regional administration will be working with these schools to bring them to parity. He disclosed that the region cannot be completely satisfied until over 80 – 90 % of the students in Region 6 can gain grades 1-3 in five subjects and over, inclusive of Mathematics and English.
Armogan also revealed that there is a significant improvement in Mathematics for this year compared to last year and the previous years, pointing out that the region is above the national average in this regard.
“The performance in English is over 50 % and the performance in Mathematics is almost 50 %. So I think we are doing better in these two core subjects that we have set ourselves to improve in the last two years.” Armogan did not fail to mention that the New Amsterdam Multilateral’s performance this year has dropped, highlighting that they once competed with the top schools in Guyana.
Meanwhile according to the Regional Chairman, another thing that will be happening this year, is the introduction of some additional subjects in some of the pilot schools, some of the senior secondary schools in the region.
“They are putting out a pilot programme with the inclusion of additional subjects outside of the academic curriculum, subjects such as Music and a push in the area of Physical Education,” Armogan said. He stressed that one concern encountered is land not being available to schools such as Line Path Secondary to facilitate students who may be writing Agriculture Science as a subject. According to him, this is an embarrassment, and the region, together with the Education Department, will be working to address the prevailing issue faced by students.
He revealed that the Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine has asked that some of these subjects be reintroduced into the schools, noting that the whole idea is to make students rounded in their educational pursuits.
The outgoing chairman divulged that the school’s uniform vouchers that were recently increased to $2000 will be distributed during the week so that parents can receive them in a couple of days before schools reopen.

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