May - June 2008
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POP VOX
How would you enhance the education system (from primary to tertiary)
in T&T?
It’s matta season (exams) on Campus. Although most students
were either studying indoors in the libraries or outdoors, on benches,
under the Samaan trees, they still shared their views with us.
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Ria Ramoutar
2nd Year UWI Student (Trinidad & Tobago)
Faculty of Humanities & Education
“Honestly you need an overhaul of the whole thing. You need to
start from scratch because when you look at our history the
education system started with Christian Missionaries, it started
with them …I think the change with C.A.P.E. is a good thing
because it is Caribbean based, but I really think a complete
overhaul with a Caribbean base is needed.”
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Yuri Saunders
1st Year UWI Student (St Vincent)
Faculty of Law
“In general the method of examining the student could do with
improving.”
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Gisele Miler
3rd Year UWI Student (Trinidad & Tobago)
Faculty of Humanities & Education
“I think they can arrange or have strategies to put in place a
syllabus for students to work better within the time frame –
time management...”
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