By Joseph Allen
Following years of poor Mathematics grades at the National Grade Six and Caribbean Secondary Edu-cation Certificate examinations, the Ministry of Edu-cation has proposed extra ‘compulsory’ study hours, among other remedies.
Speaking at the commissioning of the Victoria Lily Primary School at Tus-chen, East Bank Essequibo, President, Irfaan Ali acknowledged that his government is very concerned and said that there will be a more targeted approach to the subject, as the poor performance cannot continue.
“We are all very concerned about the performance in mathematics and we are not a government that will hide from the challenge. Because of our concern about our performance in mathematics, I had some initial conversations with Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, and I’m of the view that perhaps we need to in a much-targeted manner, [to] create additional hours for mathematics in the secondary school system, especially at the levels of the exam. Additional compulsory hours.”