The National Literacy Department of the Ministry of Education (MoE) yesterday announced the launch of a programme to target male students who failed to achieve a passing grade at the last National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations.
In a release yesterday, the MoE also informed this is a pilot programme is being rolled out in collaboration with the Ministry’s Secondary Sector, its Health and Family Life Education Unit, Loyola University, Chicago and the Guyana Defence Force.
According to the release, Professor at Loyola University, Dr Tavis Jules stated that research has shown that a country’s human capital is the most vital resource that it needs to utilize, therefore, the pilot programme will target those male learners who wrote the last NGSA but failed to achieve a passing grade.