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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Ministry to respond to secondary school transfers in a month

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Anna-Lisa Paul
1729 days ago
20201017
Sheree Welch and her daughter Tyler Welch are screened by security guard Cheryl Edwards before proceeding to be registered at St Joseph Convent, San Fernando, on Tuesday.

Sheree Welch and her daughter Tyler Welch are screened by security guard Cheryl Edwards before proceeding to be registered at St Joseph Convent, San Fernando, on Tuesday.

KRISTIAN DE SILVA

The new sec­ondary school term is set to be­gin on Mon­day and while there are thou­sands of stu­dents who have ap­plied for trans­fers fol­low­ing the Sec­ondary En­trance Ex­am (SEA) on Au­gust 20, the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion has said it will be al­most an­oth­er month be­fore any re­spons­es are forth­com­ing.

The MOE ad­vised par­ents and guardians that all stu­dents are ex­pect­ed to par­tic­i­pate in re­mote learn­ing at their as­signed schools un­til this feed­back is pro­vid­ed.

In a re­lease, the min­istry not­ed that this year there had been an in­crease in the num­bers of stu­dents reg­is­ter­ing for the SEA. They said ap­prox­i­mate­ly 4,000 trans­fer re­quests are usu­al­ly re­ceived on an an­nu­al ba­sis af­ter the ex­am.

Of­fi­cials in­di­cat­ed the grant­i­ng of a trans­fer is de­pen­dent on the avail­abil­i­ty of space in the re­quest­ed schools; the stu­dent’s per­for­mance (mer­it); if there was a change of ad­dress; if there is a med­ical con­di­tion (that must be ver­i­fied by a med­ical cer­tifi­cate and school records); spe­cial needs e.g. dis­abil­i­ties; and the re­sults of the re­view of scores which is com­plet­ed by CXC, im­pacts the trans­fer process.

The MOE said, “Trans­fers are there­fore not guar­an­teed.”

Feed­back on re­quests for trans­fers will com­mence on No­vem­ber 23, and will be avail­able at the re­spec­tive Ed­u­ca­tion Dis­trict Of­fices.

The min­istry said they are aware of the lev­el of un­cer­tain­ty faced by par­ents/guardians as they await a re­sponse to their trans­fer re­quests and, as such, on­ly stu­dents await­ing trans­fer re­sults will not be re­quired to pur­chase uni­forms and books of the as­signed school.

Ministry of Education


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