Earl Moxam, Senior Gleaner WriterTHE CARIBBEAN Examinations Council (CXC) could find itself being brought before the courts over the now controversial associate degree issue.
Dr. Dennis Minott, CEO of A-QuEST (Association of Quietly Excelling Scholars and Students), informed The Sunday Gleaner that a group of concerned parents, in association with his organisation, will be going to court, seeking an injunction to bar CXC from automatically granting the associate degree to students of CAPE - Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination.
Minott has launched a lobby against the associate degree, arguing that the CAPE programme does not satisfy the requirements for a true associate degree and so will hurt the chance of Jamaican and other Caribbean students wishing to study at prestigious
colleges and universities abroad.
LEGITIMATE PROGRAMME
The CXC has dismissed that concern, however, asserting that its associate degree programme is legitimate and should not present any of the problems cited.
The associate degree, introduced last year, is to be granted to students who do a prescribed number of subjects in certain packages.
In order to avoid being "forced to accept" the associate degree by virtue of the subjects taken, Dr. Minott said that some of the students were now "deliberately taking evasive action by not taking certain subjects".
But, according to Dr. Minott, this was not fair to the students, and so, some outraged parents of students associated with his organisation were determined to take the matter to court.
