T&T has topped the region in the 2011 Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE), receiving eight of nine awards. Winner of the President's Medal Kerry Singh, of Presentation College, San Fernando, was awarded Most Outstanding candidate in the Caribbean overall. He also received Most Outstanding in mathematics and natural sciences. Singh received grade one in 12 units, all with As in the module grades. Chairman of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) Professor E Nigel Harris said CXC had been delivering high-quality and Caribbean-oriented examination services to the region.
"What is happening in this new world is we have to prepare graduates for a lifetime of careers because, in truth, the revolution that is taking place globally is such that in ten or 20 years' time, these young people will probably have to do jobs that we will not as yet have imagined and if you think about the technological revolution that has taken place in the last two decades, had you prepared in 1990, you certainly would not have been ready for the world today." Harris was speaking at Thursday's 43rd meeting of the CXC and presentation of awards for outstanding performances in the May/June 2011 examinations.
The event was held at the Hyatt Regency in Port-of-Spain. He said T&T's achievement "must indeed tell us something." Harris said: "Each of the students here this evening performed exceptionally well and we expect, of course, that they will go on to do great things."
CAPE top performers from T&T
• Business Studies – Shalini Singh
• Technical Studies – Shastri Ram
• Environmental Science – Ivan Leonce
• Humanities – Celeste Dass
• Modern Languages – Samantha Khan