– but insists security measures in place to prevent repetitionAlthough assurance was given by the Ministry of Education that the findings of an investigation into irregularities at a Region One primary school during the 2014 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) would be made public, almost a year later this promise has not been fulfilled.The reported irregularities had resulted in the examinations being quashed and pupils having to re-sit them in order to be placed at secondary level institutions.But while there have been no official disclosures as to whether the investigation has been completed or is still on-going, the Ministry last week announced that it was ready to conduct the 2015 NGSA.Formerly referred to as Common Entrance,NFL Jerseys China, the two-day examination this year will commence today, with in excess of 15,000 candidates from across the country likely to participate. Today pupils will focus on English Language and Science, while tomorrow they will be tasked with writing Mathematics and Social Studies. Each subject will consist of two papers. Minister of Education Priya Manickchand,Wholesale Jerseys China, in a message to the students that was published in this paper on Sunday said, “I am asking you to do your very best at these assessments. They are important. Ensure that you answer each question very carefully.”“On the multiple choice paper, choose only ONE answer, the best answer. Think well before you answer. Please be calm and don’t get nervous,” the Minister appealed in her message as she pointed out that “you have studied hard. Your teachers have done their best to prepare you for this and your parents and guardians support you. Do everyone proud! We believe in you,” Manickchand added in her message to the pupils.When this publication sought to contact Superintendent of Examinations, Sauda Kadir, yesterday, to ascertain whether an investigation into last year’s irregularities was completed, and if added measures have been put in place to prevent a reoccurrence, she, through her secretary, asked that all questions be forwarded to the Ministry’s Public Relations Officer, Suelle Findlay-Williams.Although unable to pronounce on any findings of an investigation into the matter, Findlay-Williams did express confidence that “everything is in place to ensure that the irregularities of the past are not repeated.”Without even divulging the extent of the indiscretion that was detected last year,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, she related that the Ministry had directed particular efforts towards training persons to invigilate the examination.“Efforts would have been made to ensure that persons were subjected to a vetting process to ensure that students’ relatives are not among the invigilators and so on…so we have put measures in place and what happened in the past will not happen again,” Findlay-Williams categorically asserted. Moreover, she is optimistic that the security measures in place will not allow for examination papers to be compromised.Soon after the sitting of the NGSA last year, reports had surfaced of examination irregularities raising many concerns about its integrity.The Ministry had however, asserted that the development was not one that would have impacted the general integrity or the timely release of the national results, since there were no other detected instances of irregularities at the other schools.The Ministry even then was not forthcoming in detailing the extent of the irregularities, but had committed to “making public its findings at the end of its investigation.”A statement from the Ministry had pointed out too that in recent years,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, the Ministry of Education had established a number of quality assurance mechanisms to ensure that examinations and their subsequent results are of the highest integrity. In fact,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, it was these measures, the Ministry said, that allowed for the identification of the irregularities.