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The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is an examination board in the Caribbean. [1] It was established in 1972 [2] under agreement by the participating governments in the Caribbean Community to conduct such examinations as it may think appropriate and award certificates and diplomas on the results of any such examinations so conducted.
2017 CXC awards the Dennis Irvine Award for the Most Outstanding Candidate in the Caribbean in CAPE 2017 to Joel Kissoon. Consequently, Presentation College San Fernando also receives CXC's School of the Year Award, received by Principal Mr Dexter Mitchell the CXC Regional Awards Ceremony in St. Kitts & Nevis.
Wolmer's is certainly the oldest school in the Caribbean that has retained its original name. It turned into a group of schools, which was completely overhauled during the educational reforms of Governor John Peter Grant, who brought two new schoolmasters over from England. [7] Wolmer's is the oldest continually operating school in Jamaica. [6]
The next major exam of the system which is done in the fifth year of school is CSEC (Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate). Children with satisfactory grades may opt to continue high school for a further two-year period (6th form), leading to the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE).
Education in Guyana is provided largely by the Government of Guyana, through the Ministry of Education and its arms in the ten different regions of the country. Guyana's education system is a legacy from its time as British Guiana, and is similar to that of the other anglophone member states of the Caribbean Community, which are affiliated to the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).
The broad-based curriculum is geared at equipping students for life. All students sit the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) at the end of year 11 presented as Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and at years 12 and 13 presented as Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE). The course work for these examinations begins in ...
Under the Caribbean Examination Council's Revised Primary Curriculum, [3] student assessment has changed significantly from the former Common Entrance Examination at the end of Grade 6. Since 1999, the National Assessment Program (NAP) has been utilizing a variety of teaching strategies to ensure that learning experiences are more broad based ...
Through this partnership, Wooding worked closely with CXC to create the Caribbean's first-ever Digital Media syllabus, along with a training toolkit of instructional videos and resource materials to assist educators with implementing the curriculum in their classrooms.