BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC—The Barbados-based Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) says it’s repositioning itself to grow to be extra conscious of the area’s wants as 1000’s of scholars start writing examinations on Tuesday.
“This repositioning technique aimed to reinforce our regional influence and international affect, making certain the supply of related, high-quality instructional companies.
“Girls and gents, a lot is anticipated of CXC, and we is not going to shrink again from what now we have to do; as a substitute, we’ll transfer courageously and boldly in shaping and remodeling training throughout the area,” stated Dr. Wayne Wesley, CXC’s Registrar and chief govt officer.
He informed a information convention, “To achieve success, we all know we must pay attention extra to our stakeholders.”
“It is a defining posture of the brand new CXC. We’ll pay attention, interact, and work with all our stakeholders, dad and mom, college students, governments, policymakers, academics, educators, and regional and worldwide companions for larger regional influence”.
The announcement of the brand new initiative coincides with the official begin of the standard Could-June examinations arrange by CXC, which was established in 1972 beneath settlement by the taking part governments within the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM).
It supplies regional and internationally acknowledged secondary college leaving examinations related to the area’s wants and assists in Widespread Entrance and different examinations. The CXC has a complete suite of {qualifications}, specifically CSEC, Caribbean Certificates of Secondary Degree Competence (CCSLC), Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ), Caribbean Superior Proficiency Examination (CAPE), and the CXC Affiliate Diploma (CXC-AD).
“We’re happy to announce that for this 2025 examination interval, over 100,000 candidates from throughout the area have been registered to sit down over 600,000 topic entries. This will likely be one other mammoth enterprise by CXC, however we’re equal to the duty. The workforce has labored laborious to make sure every thing is in place to manage the examinations efficiently,” Wesley informed reporters.
He stated CXC is repositioning, marking “the start of our transformation effort…and that is the start of the tip of the Caribbean Examinations Council as you already know it as we remodel for larger regional influence”.
He stated that because the distinctive certifying physique for secondary training inside CARICOM, CXC is seized with the crucial to interact its organizational renewal to offer the required management and help for training transformation within the area.
He stated since December 2023, CXC has been engaged in a complete strategic repositioning train in “what’s the starting of the tip of the outdated CXC.
“This complete strategic repositioning is about remodeling for larger relevance and sustainability,” he stated, including that it encompasses three foremost parts, together with the modernization of the governance system involving a overview of CXC’s articles of settlement to incorporate expanded stakeholder illustration, enhancing accountability, related experience, and prudent oversight to make sure adherence to coverage mandate.
He stated the CXC’s organizational redesign is meant to make the examination physique “match for objective” and that “what this implies is CXC remodeling for larger relevance sustainability to realize organizational agility ‘…responding shortly and successfully to unpredictable occasions. ”
He stated the third factor of repositioning is reimagining evaluation and certification.
“This requires the recalibration and refocus of the Council’s evaluation and certification system, embracing versatile and progressive studying and competency base e3ducation in alignment with financial and social transformation.”
He stated the CXC {qualifications} would even be redesigned to realize an optimum steadiness between content material protection and talent acquisition to satisfy the assorted approaches to present and future employment abilities calls for and syllabus modernization.
“It is a new improvement in CXC as we search to grow to be extra versatile and conscious of the wants of the area, and so a brand new qualification has been developed…and inside this assemble, the learner is on the focus of what we’re treating with.
“In that regard, we acknowledge that there are a number of choices. You’ve superior gifted college students who can take the accelerated observe and those that can accomplish that by means of a compressed program.
“We additionally acknowledge there are the standard college students who will take the final observe, finishing this system in a specified interval as in most of our syllabuses, two years, after which you should have the individualized particular person who will want a versatile observe and prolonged program time to deal with with and take in the content material.”
He stated recognizing the learner’s three competencies will result in a brand new CXC qualification that will likely be on the similar commonplace as CSEC and CAPE, make the most of the identical syllabus, give attention to associated and related studying outcomes, and supply for progressive competency achievements.
He stated the Caribbean Focused Schooling Certificates (CTEC), which will likely be non-terminal, will likely be “our micro-credential and will likely be awarded to college students who efficiently obtain a module.
“Then it will lead into our intermediate credentials…which will likely be awarded to those that obtain an outlined module topics…” with the macro-credentials given to these college students efficiently attaining a prescribed set of topics and/or modules.
