THE BARBADOS UNION OF TEACHERS (BUT) is insisting it will do nothing to jeopardise Tuesday’s crucial Common Entrance Exam, administered by the Ministry of Education.
More than 3 500 primary school pupils are set to take the test that will determine where they will receive their secondary education, but industrial tension between teachers and the ministry has prompted fears that exams, particularly the more immediate Common Entrance, could be at risk.
“I have given the assurance already and I will give it again, that the Barbados Union of Teachers will do nothing, will do absolutely nothing, to jeopardise the Common Entrance Exam on Tuesday.
“All of our members who have a part to play in the Common Entrance Exam will be on the job,” president Pedro Shepherd assured yesterday evening at a Press conference at the headquarters of the Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) in Beckles Road, St Michael. (AC)
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