The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is reporting signs of a return to normalcy for students from Barbados and other Caribbean states and its chief executive officer is calling for an end to confrontation between stakeholders, for students’ sake.Following delays in the sitting of exams, concerns over matriculation to external universities, and challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two years, Director of Operations Dr Nicole Manning said on Monday that increased use of CXC’s e-testing mechanism and a decline in the level of hardships experienced by students were among the signs that things were going back to normal.She was addressing a gathering that included CXC’s Chief Executive Officer Dr Wayne Wesley and other top education officials and students in St Lucia, as she presented the official results of the May/June 2022 regional exams at a ceremony streamed live from the Gros Islet Human Resource Development Centre.Dr Manning reported that there was significant growth in the use of electronic testing by students across the region.
