EDITOR, The Tribune.

When the Minister of Education Desmond Bannister announced earlier this year that he would discard the national BGCSE grade average, it marked a new dawn of sanity in our annual assessment of the state of education in the country. That permanent fixture of 'D' seemed to haunt us - and taunt us - as no fixes were in sight.

Mr Bannister correctly pointed out that "averaging" a grade based on multiple subjects made very little sense. Consider a school that has a weak science programme of which only part of the school body was eligible to sit that exam. Those lackluster results were tossed in with the better results of a completely different subset of students ...

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