WESTERN BUREAU: Discovery Bay High School in St Ann is hailing its four-year-old Grade Nine Acceleration Programme (GNAP) – which exposes students to the rigours of the Caribbean Secondary Education Council (CSEC) – as a major success story and is urging other schools to adopt it to raise their pass rates. The programme allows students to begin CSEC preparation in grade nine rather than the traditional grade 10. It was introduced three years after the school’s opening in 2019. Read more