Two advocacy groups that campaign for student justice are suggesting that efforts to reform education must include a change in the governance of the Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC)The Group of Concerned Parents and the Caribbean Coalition for Exam Redress offered this position just one day after the examining body released this year’s test results.Commenting on Monday’s official release, parent advocate and spokesperson/coordinator for both groups Paula-Anne Moore was again critical of the way in which the regional exam body conducts its business.“Communication remains rare and one-way, and the consensus is that education reform needs to include a change in CXC’s governance to make it accord with modern best practice,” Moore said in a statement issued on Tuesday.She also argued that there needs to be external independent expert regulation to make CXC resilient, accountable, responsive and transparent to its main stakeholders, the tax-paying public, the students and their parents – those whose needs CARICOM and CXC were created to serve,” she contended.
