Two hundred and sixty-one of 273 students who took the territory’s school-leaving exams this year passed, Education and Culture Minister Myron Walwyn said Monday during a speech broadcast on radio and television.
These numbers included students from Elmore Stoutt High, Bregado Flax Educational Centre, Seventh-day Adventist Secondary School, St. George’s Secondary School and the Claudia Creque Learning Centre, according to Government Information Services.
Mr. Walwyn also congratulated the students who earned the highest grade point averages: Claudius Maynard of ESHS and Nema Henry of Seventh-day Adventist.
He urged graduates to further their education at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, and suggested that students who didn’t pass the exam enrol in the government’s alternative secondary education program.
The minister added that this summer the Department of Youth Affairs will re-launch the Youth Unemployment Register “with improved training and the use of an online job portal to help you, our graduates, find opportunities in the work world.”