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Posted: Monday 28 August, 2017 at 3:00 PM

Education Ministry not limiting subjects to students

Minister of Education Hon. Shawn Richards
By: Jermine Abel, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – AS talks continue on Guyana’s Queen’s College student Michael Bhopaul sitting and passing 25 subjects at the 2017 Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate exams, the Federation’s Ministry of Education declared that it has no plans in limiting the amount of subjects students would want write.

     

    In fact, at a recent press conference, Minister of Education Hon. Shawn Richards had announced the preliminary results and stated that “the Ministry of course cannot stop any parent or student from exercising those particular options”.

    That comes against the backdrop of Operation Rescue’s Dwyer Astaphan recently questioning Bhopaul’s choice to undertake such a task.

    When asked at the press conference about limiting students, Minister Richards informed that students in some educational institutions are undertaking 13, 14 or even 15 subjects during contact time in their classrooms per week.

    “As such, of course, a student is free to take as many subjects offered by the institution which he or she is attending,” Richards said.

    He explained that there are some students who opt to do additional subjects out of school, which adamantly lies with a decision guided by their parents or guardians.

    “What, of course, we can do, is to help to guide students in letting them know the number of subjects which perhaps are necessary to allow them to enter into CFBC or whatever institution he or she desires to attend upon graduation.”

    Many in the Federation and around the region had often questioned why students, especially those from Guyana, are allowed by the various institutions to write so many subjects.

    But according to Bhopaul – who achieved 24 grade ones and a two (which is being challenged) – it was fun for him.

    “Well, you know God didn’t make our fingers equal, everyone is different. So what I find to be fun another person might not find to be fun. I found studying, taking in knowledge, learning things to be fun because you discover things along the way and it’s a very nice feeling you get, you know you learn things,” WINN FM quoted Bhopaul as saying.
     
    Last year, the Federation’s top student, Rol-J Williams, sat 17 subjects and obtaining grade one passes in each of them.

    This year, Tarique Allen of Basseterre High School topped the country with 13 grade ones from 14 subjects, while awaiting the result for another subject.

    Richards suggested that they want to ensure that students who is sitting a heavy subject load would have a balanced lifestyle.
     
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