Education in Caribbean
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AMERICAS, 2016/05/11
Barbadian-born Grammy-winning singer Rihanna has announced a world scholarship programme that would fund education for students from seven nations, inclunding her home country and four other Caribbean nations, in the United States.
The college scholarship programme, launched through her Clara Lionel Foundation (CLF), would provide up to US$50,000 in scholarships for successful applications from Barbados, Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Guyana, Jamaica, or the US who have by presently been accepted into a bachelor’s degree program at an accredited four-year college or university in the US for the 2016-2017 year.
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BARBADOS, 2016/03/20
University of the West Indies (UWI) officials are calling for additional action and less talk across the region to confront the low performance in Mathematics at the secondary and tertiary level.
Dean in the Faculty of Science and Technology at the UWI Cave Hill Campus, Dr Colin Depradine, said the situation has reached the stage where urgent intervention is required.
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EUROPE, 2013/03/19
Gross enrolment ratio. Primary. Total is the total enrollment in primary education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population of official primary education age. GER can exceed 100% due to the inclusion of over-aged and under-aged students because of early or late school entrance and grade repetition. UNESCO Institute for Statistics Catalog Sources World Development Indicators
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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, 2012/12/28
The assigment of % of the Gross Domestic Product to the national education in the Dominican budget for 2013 will be applied as conceived, ratified President Danilo Medina here Wednesday.
In a interview broadcast Wednesday by a local television channel, the Dominican Chief of National valued the step, established in the Constitution and failed to fulfill formerly, as the majority significant investment of the current Dominican government.
