Many students can't read, write and add properly
Friday, March 24th 2006, Tobago News

Coordinator of the University of the West Indies (UWI) School of Continuing Studies (SCS) Tobago Centre, George Bobb has lamented the situation where most of the persons enrolling at the Centre, despite being holders of many 'O" Level passes, cannot read and write and add properly. As a result, they experience problems in "handling the course of study", he added.

Bobb put the issue in the spotlight as he expressed concern over the whole question of entry requirements for persons seeking to be students at the UWI SCS Tobago centre at Signal Hill. He said so when he presented his report at the Centre's graduation ceremony of the Class of 2005 at the Mason Hall Government Secondary School last Sunday.

Bobb said this was one of the challenges over which authorities at the UWI SCS Tobago Centre were most concerned. The Centre Coordinator stressed: "We want to deal with the question of entry requirements for students. It is the view of our teachers across the board that most, if not all the students who enter our further education programme, despite the details of their 'O' Level certificates, are woefully wanting in their writing, comprehension and composition skills, which impacts negatively, and seriously so, on their capacity to handle the programme at hand," he disclosed.

According to the teachers at the Centre, "crime against grammar is the rule of the day, not the exception," Bobb reported. "They don't know the way how to write essays, they just can assemble bits from the Internet; and even the cream of the crop does not know how to use an apostrophe, one teacher said," he noted.

What about the computers for signal hill sen. comp. ? Students could not finish their classes because of 'no computers'.

$5m in aid for Tobago students
Elizabeth W Allard Trinidad Express Tobago Bureau
Wednesday, February 22nd 2006

About $5 million will be spent on financial assistance for students in Tobago this year, almost matching the amount that was spent on the island in the last fiscal year.

Chief Secretary and Education Secretary Orville London said that there were young people in Tobago who were making a difference where education was concerned.

He was speaking at the weekly post-Executive Council Media briefing.

With respect to medical studies, it was disclosed that last year's top student, out of a group of international students, was Tobagonian Rene Alfred, who has gone on to further her studies.

Tessa Brown, another Tobagonian, was also a top student in the pharmacology programme.

The programme runs three to four years.

This year 196 people will be assisted, while the training awards committee has recommended a further 47 for favourable considerations. London said people could apply to study under special Tobago places.

There might also be more value for money this year as free tertiary education at the undergraduate level will kick in.

In addition Gate will also apply to people pursuing postgraduate courses, and as a result, Assembly funds will be expanded further.

London said financial assistance was for all students and people pursuing post-Secondary Education and they had the right to apply and would be considered.

He said $3 million would be spent to refurbish the School of Continuing Studies at Signal Hill.

Work is set to start in the next couple months.

Expansion is said to be with respect to the building, and the curriculum will also be upgraded.

Improvements are to be carried out on the Art Lab and library facilities are to be enhanced, with training through distance learning.

An early childhood care facility is envisioned to be upgraded and used in the future as a model.

Moore is Tobago's Teacher of the Year 2005
Friday, October 21st 2005
http://www.thetobagonews.com/index.pl/article?id=4384334

nicce more computers to the school and libraries but when they upgrading the lines to handle another 200 computers to the island?

TSTT, Nortel give 200 computers to libraries
Friday, October 21st 2005
http://www.thetobagonews.com/index.pl/article?id=4384343

Third Evelyn James Memorial presented
Friday, October 14th 2005
http://www.thetobagonews.com/index.pl/article?id=4297132

it seems since it started in 2001 it keeps going over bugdet and require additional funds.

probably the same amount of money it take to or shall i say trying to build the new scarborough general hospital.

$6.2M for Tobago education in the Newsday

INTRODUCTION
OF THE APPROPRIATION BILL 2001-2002
IN THE SENATE ON MONDAY 24TH SEPTEMBER 2001

PUBLIC SECTOR
INVESTMENT
PROGRAMME 2003
TOBAGO Submitted in 2002

PUBLIC
SECTOR
INVESTMENT
PROGRAMME
- TOBAGO
2 0 0 5 Submitted in 2004

How much it actually cost to build Mason Hall Government Secondary school ? :-s