Now although taking all these exams can be a grueling task, it comes with great reward. Minister of Education Patrick Faber outlined the scholarship opportunities and grants that are given to top CSEC and CAPE achievers.
Hon. Patrick Faber, Minister of Education/Deputy Prime Minister
"We increased the award for the Belize Open Scholarship which goes to the Top CAPE performer. That award used to be for $80,000 dollars."
"That money is a very small contribution if you compare it to what we pay for professional and technical scholarships for example, it is a very small contribution to their education so we increased it and so for the last few years it has been $200,000 so that top performer today received that scholarship for $200,000 and the top CSEC performer as well as the second place also at the CAPE level will receive scholarships courtesy of the Government of Belize. I challenged the gathering at an awards ceremony maybe about 5 years ago now that if a student will yield 15 passes that we would give a special grant of $5,000 towards studies wherever they choose and I am happy to report that that has taken off tremendously so much that in fact we are reconsidering the bar for next year."
That $200,000 scholarship award for top performers has been in place for 5 years now. Faber says they will also look into how they can also assist those students who took fewer subjects but got all grade one's.
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