The Ministry of Education has announced that a probe is underway into suspected irregularities in the conduct of the National Grade Six Assessment examinations in Region 1.

According to the Ministry, it has been informed that there were “irregularities in the conduct of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) in a particular school in Region 1 that has affected the integrity of that school’s NGSA results. The Ministry of Education has launched an investigation into the matter”.

The Education Ministry said it is actively considering various options and will make interventions where “its paramount consideration will be what is in the best interest of the affected students”.

Details of the suspected irregularities were not made available to the media but the Ministry said it will continue to update the general public. The move to launch an investigation into the conduct of the examinations at the Region 1 school will not affect the release of the examination results to the other schools across Guyana.

“In recent years, The Ministry of Education established a number of quality assurance mechanisms to ensure that examinations and their subsequent results are of the highest integrity. In fact, it was these measures that allowed the Ministry to identify this problem in the affected area and school. No other irregularities were found in any of the other schools in Guyana”, the Ministry said.

The NGSA results are set to be released nationwide on or before Friday June 27, 2014.

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