The Alliance For Change (AFC) has congratulated all the students who were successful at the recent National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) but remains concerned about the large percentage of students that are “still falling through the cracks.”
The party recognises that behind these individuals successes are long hours of toil and hard work by the students, their parents and teachers. “It is a partnership that produces success,” the group said in a press release.
“But even as we celebrate,” a large percentage of students are completing their primary education with an insufficiently strong foundation in the core subject areas, namely English and Mathe-matics, on which to build in the future. “Revela-tions by the Ministry of Education itself has highlighted that overall passes in Mathematics amongst