Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) may soon be introduced in the local tertiary education setting.
Education Minister Octavia Alfred said during the release of the 2025 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) results this week that Dominica’s government is in discussions as it relates to this decision. This is due to what she says is an expansion of options available to students.
“We are in a conversation on CAPE because it has grown significantly from what it was from 2015,” she said. “It has grown, we saw the changes, and some of the reasons why we didn’t accept CAPE have been eradicated because of our recommendations to CXC.”
However, though there has been significant growth, Alfred continued, “We find that the options being offered on island are still very limited.”
The minister revealed that the government of Dominica has engaged an outside consultant to do an overall review of the Dominica State College.
“So the results of this review should inform us, or at least guide us as to whether we want to introduce CAPE at the college or whether we want to keep it as something separate or where we would want to keep it,” she explained. “So that’s where we are so far on the CAPE.”
She added, “Let’s wait for the review. Let’s encourage people who want to expand their curriculum, because if you are looking to put CAPE under the Island Scholar Program, it would have to be not less than what it is now. So we would have to look at the subjects they are offering, what the [pass] in the subject would be.”
Alfred indicated that government’s current position on CAPE reflects its evolution over the past 15 years, “because now we have embraced CAPE.”
LENNOX LINTON the no gce,no cxc man for Prime Minister.
@ the CLOWN
It’s only a fool and an embarrassment who believes that a GCE means cleverness.
You have earned the name CLOWN, oh how well it suits you!
You are not even concerned of your illiteracy.You can barely read or write. You are shameless, and an idiot.
I guess you are not of the view that schooling/education is not important!! Hence, the CLOWN is relevant here!
Lol! Re-read what you just wrote.
Madam Octavia you need to go
rewrite all those exams. Get those students about to write them to tutor you.
@DM
Boy CAPE is a highly advanced exam we. She would fail all.
Remember what tete calbas Austrie said? We are LAST in everything. This is so true. She speaks like CAPE is a new thing. She Lie!
MEME
Whenever the news media directly quote the National Security and the Education ministers their command of the English language is so infantile. Many times one has to reread their statements three and four times to try to decipher exactly their thoughts.
I will bet my most cherished possession that this present Minister of Education, if given the CAPE English exam, will fail it spectacularly. The lady should voluntarily stand down as minister and allow that ministry to be given to someone much more competent and deserving. By keeping her as Minister of Education, Roosevelt is gambling with the future of the students and by extension the country.
Why don’t you go up the stairs to her office and tell her, Ibo? You keep hiding behind a computer screen to hurl insults and tarnish reputations in your vendetta against the Minister and the PM. Go face them and tell them. Nothing but a weak and pathetic coward, Ibo!
Hit the nail on the head, weak pathetic coward, attempting to comfort himself by putting others down, massive hypocrite. While politicians are often terrible, personalities like Ibo refuse to acknowledge that their hypocritical selfishness directly feeds or are the source of many of the problems they complain about.
Its like saying “look how sick that person is!” without seeing that you just as sick or worse and still spreading the disease.
@Ibo
CAPE is difficult to pass.
All her grades would be Ungraded. She cant pass CAPE at all.
MEME