T&T girl wins Rhodes scholarship

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First of all , she will have to do 2 years of Math :

to come up to the equivalency of an Oxford undergrad Math degree.

Then she can pursue the graduate Masters....
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prove that! ::confused::

Rhodes connived his way to wealth in a lawless frontier culture, then used that fortune to fund a private invasion of East Africa. He bought newspapers in order to shape and control public opinion. He brokered secret deals, issued bribes and used gangs of mercenaries to butcher his opponents, seizing close to a million square miles of territory from its inhabitants. Although he did this in the name of the British Empire, he was regarded with some suspicion in his home country, and when it suited him to work against Britain’s imperial interests – by slipping £10,000 to Parnell’s Irish nationalists, for example – he did so without scruple.

Mapoui , mmaaannnn : Examples are too numerous .

Guyana current Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnarine

got his undergrad from Cambridge : b4 getting his grad from Cornell, then PhD 

I gave the example  above of a client who came to UfT with an Engineer undergrad 

This cab I took de odda day ,driver was a medical doctor from Asia.

when he wrote the eqivalency review , he failed miserably

not even a Lab assistant equivalency 

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=97643.msg637908#msg637908 date=1432002611]
John Agard : Playwright, Poet and Writer

Born in Guyana on June 21,1949. He is  playwright, poet and children's writer.

He has written many books for children and adults.

[size=10pt]His poem  "Half-caste" is on the AQA English GCE syllabus,

and every year he  tours the UK performing with other top poets for GCE students.[/size]

He became  the first writer-in-residence at the South Bank Centre in 1993 and at the BBC  in 1998.

His  awards include the Casa de las Americas Poetry Prize, the Guyana Prize, a CLPE  Award, a Cholmodeley Prize.

In 2007 in was nominated for a Nibbie.

In 2013, John Agard was presented a Gold Medal for Poetry by The Queen of England.                                               

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GCE O and A levels has been DUMBED down for CXC:

last decade and a half !

John Agard still writes and deliver lectures for GCE students in London , England !

man you might be right.  but as chairs said you did not get my point.  I know we are behind although we might be further ahead than you think..and there may be areas we are quite excellent.

like I have found that in english and general knowledge we are far superior to the the regular canadian on any street in canada.  and our achievements of world class are in literature and the humanities by a whopping margin.  yet we have a few in there in economics and science and math..Capildeo, Gift, Arthur Lewis etc

the english, americans, canadians etc would be ahead of us technically..because we do not do anything that requires high applied science in the west indies.  it is change in that I have in mind..development that requires the applied sciences to revolutionize our reality and produce high scientific development dragging all else upwards...in which our self education would take place..starting now at the level we have

it does not matter where you start as long as you start with the express purpose of scaling the mountain top

Mapoui , maybe during the GCE days !

but with the dumbing down to CXC , we get guys like SCA  : hahahaha ::LOL:: ::LOL::

[quote author=ketchim link=topic=101610.msg666434#msg666434 date=1448910701]
Mapoui , maybe during the GCE days !

but with the dumbing down to CXC , we get guys like SCA  : hahahaha ::LOL:: ::LOL::
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it still does not preclude a start, a beginning.  we still have the job to do..to take care of ourselves. the development of our material circumstances depends on tackling our existential problems..unless we do the applied sciences ourselves essential for success.  that is obvious and regular common sense. 

we do it to solve the problems and soon we don't have to accept no Rhodes no  more

I see some silly statements here, like pronouncements that Ms. Gomes will be set back two years. How they know this is anybody's guess. Just like they know the secrets of the world.

I see senility in an old fart trying to be pertinent, and Maps indulging the old chap's baseless comments. Maps is right to ask for proof. Time to put a stop to the lunacy of false pronouncements.

I was fortunate to have been educated in Guyana and the US.