Top 10 CAPE and CXC results

[Willi]

http://www.slideshare.net/fullscreen...t-by-subject/1

[Don1]

A cursory scan indicates 75-90% of the top performers appear to be girls. This is in accord with my previous analyses on the education shitstem

There is a HUGE crisis among boys...which most "analysts" ignore or are ignorant about

Very bad

[Mosiah]

A closer look reveals:

1. Jamaica tops in Agri Science (along with Guyana) and Computer Science (along with T&T), Electrical & Electronic Technology, Food & Nutrition, Geography (with T&T), History (with T&T), Law (Maggoty student was No. 1), Accounting, Biology. Not much STEM in that list!
2. Guyana pretty much absent from lists. - They used to boss it years ago.
3. Jamaica and T&T share tops places in IT, Sociology, Spanish, Performing Arts
4. T&T tops in Literature, Physical Education and Sport, Entrepreneurship Art & Design, Economics, Environmental Science.
5. Guyana and T&T tops in Tourism.
6. T&T monopolizes Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics. I guess their STEM is up and running. Don1, yuh work cut out fi yuh!
7. Girl from St. Lucia is No. 1 in Economics. She attends the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College. That's like Merlene Ottey High winning the Girls section of Champs and Donald Quarrie winning the Boys. (For those who don't know, Sir Arthur Lewis won the Nobel Economics Prize.)

[Don1]

[*]T&T monopolizes Mathematics, Chemistry and Physics. I guess their STEM is up and running. Don1, yuh work cut out fi yuh!

Yeah the TT economy is oil & gas based...so they have had since the 1950s a big concentration on energy services & production. That takes good engineering talent...which they have invested in for a long time.
Witness the UWI Engineering Faculty @ St Augustine (I'm sure you're familiar)...basically the only credible such faculty in the English-speaking Caribbean. TT nowadays even manufactures its own oil/gas derricks and other support infrastructure

Meanwhile back home...JA & other tourism-dependent countries have nuff expertise in trinket selling, taxing, butlering, maid & wait staffing...along with those working on prostituting & rent-a-dreading servicing fat tourists

We clearly needed a different skill set from TT for our economy

But we can start to catch up...not with that heavy engineering like TT...but with Century 21 Tech/Knowledge Applications ...of course operating alongside those butlering etc. Mi nuh waan Johnny get vex if mi leff dem out