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With good grades in English Language and Mathematics increasingly being touted as a critical doorway to higher education and meaningful employment paths in Guyana,” the Georgetownbased JTW Management Institute has launched the City and Guilds of London and English and Mathematics certificates as what the Institute’s Director Jocelyn Williams is describing as a “second chance” for CSEC students and young school leavers.

Williams told Stabroek Business during an interview earlier this week that what the Institute is offering is City and Guilds-designed Mathematics & English Certificates “tailor made” for young school leavers, and those who drop out of school without the required CSEC passes in English and Mathematics. Apart from the opportunity that the course offers to what she calls “an option” for students looking ahead to the CSEC examination it also offers “a second chance” through a carefully designed regimen of tuition leading to the Certificates.

With other countries in the region also facing failurerelated challenges in English and Mathematics at the CSEC level Williams disclosed that the City and Guilds programme has already been endorsed by the Ministry of Education in Jamaica which has concluded a contract with City and Guilds of London. According to Williams the qualification has already secured the support of the University Council of Jamaica, the Jamaica Ministry of Public Service and Jamaica Defence Force, and the Employers Federation in Jamaica.

Located in the Private Sector Commission Building on Waterloo Street, the JTW Institute is now registering fo the January 2018 classes unt December 10, 2017 an Williams says that the pro gramme should be seen as a option for “the nation’s youn people and those already in th workforce… to obtain founda tional skills and qualification in Mathematics and English.”

City and Guilds is promo ing the Certificate pro grammes as a “flexible, rele vant and highly personalize route to certification” as we as an opportunity for student to secure the skills needed “fo their next steps in life, wor and study.”

With good grades i English and Mathematics a the GCE and CSEC leve having long been touted a critical paths to both highe education and worthwhile job Williams says that the Cit and Guilds-designed pro gramme is being offere through a Day and Evenin three-stage teaching/learnin programme. She explaine that in the mathematics pro gramme the curriculum i spread across basic areas tha include measurement an standard units, common frac tions and decimal fractions i Stage One to areas of th mathematics curriculum mor closely related to the CSE curriculum.

The English programm also presents a staged curricu lum ranging from readin strategies and use of gramma spelling and punctuation i Stage One of the programm to planning and organizin writing and writing for clea communication at the Stag Three level.

Williams says that th staged or phased nature of th programme provides student with an opportunity to proper ly prepare for the “challenges of the CSEC examination in