THE Ministry of Education, through a press statement issued yesterday, informed students, who have recently concluded the sitting of the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations (and speaking also to their parents or guardians), that all textbooks issued by the Ministry through their schools are to be returned upon conclusion of their final examination.

According to the statement, students who fail to return the textbooks, which were loaned to them by their schools, will not be able to access their results. This request is in keeping the Ministry’s Textbook Policy, which states: “Learners must return books before progress reports, examination results, recommendations, or references are uplifted.”
As such, the Ministry is forced to adopt this unfortunate position in an effort to provide adequate text books and similar opportunities to the next batch of students.