Education

St. Kitts – Nevis’ Cabinet Tour Schools
Photo By Erasmus Williams

Basseterre, St. Kitts
September 09, 2008 (SKNIS)

Government Ministers in St. Kitts wrapped up two days of visits to primary and secondary schools and the C.F.B. College on Tuesday, and Minister of State for Information Honourable Nigel Carty described the event as “enjoyable and nationalistically stirring.”

The visits to the educational institutions are done every year at Independence time although the hectic schedule was scaled down a few years ago, to include secondary schools only. As this year’s occasion marks the silver jubilee anniversary of Independence of St. Kitts and Nevis, Minister Carty said that it was important for the touring party headed by Prime Minister Honourable Dr. Denzil L. Douglas to visit all thirty schools.

Appearing on this week’s edition of Perspectives, the Minister of State for Information said the teachers, students and parents on hand were assured of Government’s commitment to provide quality education.

“There was a very strong message that this is the 25th Anniversary of Independence. We have achieved a great deal through the hard work of our forebearers and persons who went before us in leading the government of St. Kitts and Nevis,” he explained.

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Washington Archibald High School – Class of 2008
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Basseterre, St. Kitts – Nevis
September 04, 2008 (CUOPM)

The Gingerland High School in Nevis not only leads the other secondary schools in the Federation with the highest passing rate in the 2008 CXC exams, but one of its students was the most successful, with 12 subjects including nine distinctions.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education, Hon.  Sam Condor in a nationwide broadcast said the Gingerland High School attained a pass rate of 81.91 percent, with Earlene Pemberton of the same school passing 12 subjects including nine distinctions.

The Gingerland Secondary School registered 79 candidates for 448 subject entries, which produced 367 passing grades, resulting in a pass rate of 81.91 percent. Most subject areas returned satisfactory pass rates, with only Mathematics and Electricity/Electronic Technology being borderline, just about 50 percent. The most outstanding student was Earline Pemberton, with 12 subject passes, including 9 distinctions.

At the Basseterre High School, 128 candidates accounted for 703 subject entries with 572 subject passes, giving a pass rate of 81.36 percent.  The students performed fairly satisfactorily in the majority of subjects with pass rates ranging between 60 to 100 percent. The performance in two subjects however, is cause of much concern and redress; namely Mechanical Engineering Technology with a pass rate of 15 percent and Building Technology (Woods) with 9 percent passes.

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