Students who do not reach the requisite standard required after participating in Mathematics and English at the National Grade Nine Assessment should not be allowed to write the said subjects at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination level.This is according to Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh, who noted that such students would have to wait another year having taken remedial programmes or they would have to seek the services of private institutions.He said that the Ministry of Education is currently on a mission to review the Grade Nine Assessment,Cheap NFL Jerseys Online, a move which has been prompted by the discovery that the assessment is not being used in the same way as in the primary level Grades Two and Four Assessments.Baksh made this declaration when he addressed a gathering of head teachers. The Grade Nine Assessment must be used by the schools primarily as a diagnostic tool, he said.“You must look at the Grade Nine passes and do something about it just as at the Grade Four in Primary Schools and devise school-based strategies. Some of you may have been doing this already but a lot are not.”The Grade Nine Assessment, he said, should be used much in the way as the Grade Four Assessment to be the diagnostic instrument to do the remediation at Grade 10.We will have to have programmes in the school at Grade 10 to ensure that at the end of Grade 10 the performances go up.”Having participated in the programmes students will be given another test to ensure that they would have reached the requisite standards.? And should students not reach the required standards they will not be able to sit the CSEC Mathematics or English.“We can’t leave it to chance,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, something that we have been accustomed to. When things are automatic we close our eyes and the system runs…but that will change.”It is the conviction of the Minister that once this initiative progresses as anticipated there will be new vitality in secondary education.Remediation programmes are also being geared for Grades Seven and Eight for slow learners,Wholesale Jerseys Cheap, Minister Baksh added.According to him,China Jerseys Wholesale, the Ministry is currently looking at several interventions in this regard.? And head teachers,Nike NFL Jerseys China, he said, will be able to seek support from the Ministry to ensure that the remedial programmes are progressing well.“We will set up point persons at NCERD – one in Mathematics and one in English – who you can relate to directly. You will be by-passing all the bureaucratic structures to discuss what constraints you feel you have in English and Mathematics…“The teacher may not be able to do everything; we know the quality of teachers in these subjects areas…”? The Minister said that the plan will be to engage an intervention with clusters of schools and provide a quality teacher in mathematics for example to teach students.Classes, he said,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, could he held during the week even as plans are apace to factor in Saturday sessions taking into consideration those students who will write CSEC next year.Mathematics and English have always been a challenge for the local education system, thus efforts are continually being made to improve students’ performance.