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Jul 31, 2018 News
Christianburg Wismar Secondary School (CWSS) has now joined Mackenzie High in Region 10 to offer the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) this year. The region now has two institutions offering CAPE.
The move comes even as the Ministry of Education (MoE) takes yet another step towards closing the gap in education delivery across Guyana. This intervention comes at a time when Guyana is expected to experience a ‘purple patch’ with the emerging Oil and Gas sector.
The MoE recognized that the educational thrust of Guyana is along the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) path. Therefore it is important that the schools’ curricula respond to the needs of the society.
The subjects that will be taught for the September 2018 CAPE programme at CWSS are: Geometrical and Mechanical Engineering Drawing, Electrical and Electronic Technology, Computer Science and Pure Mathematics. This ultimately would lead to an Associate Degree in Technical Studies from the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).
Additionally, such pursuits will allow for the exemption from courses at the University of Guyana should the students go on to that territory institution.
Region 10 has a secondary school population of 4,138. While all seven secondary schools there are offering the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC); only the one senior secondary school, the Mackenzie High school, was offering CAPE.
The CWSS has one of the strongest technical vocational education programmes in Region 10. This is evident in the CSEC results in the technical subjects. The school is equipped with four large workshops and two Information Technology laboratories to offer a multilateral programme.
The school is a grade [B] institution, with a matriculation rate that ranks high among the other list [A] grade Schools in Guyana. Matriculation is defined by CXC as a pass of at least five CSEC subjects, at one sitting, at Grades I to III, including English A and Mathematics.
Over the past five years the school recorded a consistent improvement in student matriculation. In 2013, only 29 percent of the CSEC candidates matriculated. By 2017, 48 percent matriculated. Over the past three years a total of 233 students matriculated from this school.
Thirty-one percent or 72 of the students, who matriculated from the school over the past three years, were from the Industrial Technology Department. In 2015 and 2016, 83 percent of the candidates passed and in 2017 all the candidates (100 percent) passed.
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