There is a dire need for the Region to start moving like ‘(Usain) Bolt’ in the STEM areas of Science,NBA Jerseys China, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, said Senior Assistant Registrar of the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC), Dr Gordon Harewood, as he addressed a CXC forum in Guyana recently.CXC’s Dr Gordon HarewoodHe was at the time speaking on the importance of fostering regional growth through collaboration between graduates who have migrated and their colleagues who have remained in the Region.Dr Harewood, in his presentation, revealed that there currently exist even greater scopes for collaboration with the expansion of the range of subject areas being offered by CXC.Among the new subjects that CXC is poised to introduce are Digital Media and Entrepreneurship.These subjects,Cheap Jerseys China, he said, can ideally complement the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) Management of Business (MOB) even as he expressed his desire to “see CAPE MOB really starting to take off even more now.”He pointed out that having passed Entrepreneurship students can combine this with the skills they obtain from MOB.“Just imagine a Sixth Form student or the student out there in the private sphere having CAPE Caribbean Studies, Communication Studies,NFL Jerseys Cheap, MOB, Entrepreneurship and Digital Media. Imagine a student with Grade Ones or Grade Twos in those subjects…that student will not be going to anybody looking for a job.”That student has carved out a path for his or her future already there. If they are going to look for a job, unfortunately for the Region, they are going to look for one in California, Hollywood, or at Google for that matter or somewhere like that,” Dr Harewood speculated.He is however hopeful that even after migrating graduates of the Region would remember that they are “Caribbean People and that the Region needs their contribution.“We want to see students with MOB background embracing our Entrepreneurship and Digital Media when we launch those syllabi so that they can really become the Caribbean people of the future that fit in with that Caribbean 21st century vision…”Dr Harewood said that while the Regional results for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination in both Mathematics and English this year have been described as dismal in many sections,Wholesale Jerseys, the former mentioned subject area did see a few candidates scoring full marks on each paper.He lamented, though, that the disturbing fact is that the results show that some concepts which should have really been mastered at the lower secondary level are challenging to candidates.He made reference to very simple algebra and perimeter questions which according to him saw too many candidates becoming lost in their responses.“We (CXC) do common entrance examinations for two countries and we also do the Caribbean Primary-Exit Assessment (CPA). We ask those kinds of questions and students don’t howl and scream and say it is too difficult,China Jerseys NFL, but when we present similar questions to CSEC candidates they are not doing well as they should,” Dr Harewood disclosed.Despite the evident decline in Mathematics and English this year, the Senior Assistant Registrar said that there were commendable performances in the new subject area of Additional Mathematics which was introduced this year.Although entries were small, he revealed that approximately 58 per cent of the candidates obtained Grade One through Three in this subject area.He said that CXC will be seeking to encourage candidates who intend to go on to do Pure Maths at CAPE to take up Additional Maths.He revealed that for many years the Pure Maths Awards Committee has been complaining that students have been embarking on the Pure Maths Programme with gaps, having done only CSEC Maths.“There are still gaps which they need to remedy before they can deal well with the Pure Maths programme. This syllabus was constructed specifically with that in mind and it does provide a great platform for success at CAPE Pure Maths and especially for those students who may do (CSEC) Maths in Third or Fourth Forms and spend a year in Fifth Form without doing Maths again until Sixth Form.”According to Dr Harewood, it would be best for students to do it early then go on to do the Additional Maths in Fifth Form and be quite ready for the Pure Maths in Sixth Form, Dr Harewood explained.According to him, CXC has built Additional Maths into its criteria for the Regional Top Awards starting this year thus candidates would not have been penalised if they had opted to do Additional Maths instead of CSEC Maths.