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The Na­tion­al In­sti­tute of High­er Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search, Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy (NI­HERST) has launched a na­tion­al re­search project ti­tled “Analy­sis of Aca­d­e­m­ic Per­for­mance of Stu­dents Across Pri­ma­ry and Sec­ondary Schools in Trinidad and To­ba­go.”

The ini­tia­tive aims to ex­am­ine the fac­tors in­flu­enc­ing stu­dent out­comes across the ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem. Ac­cord­ing to NI­HERST, the re­search will sup­port the de­vel­op­ment of ed­u­ca­tion pol­i­cy and pro­grammes, pro­vide da­ta on ex­ist­ing chal­lenges, and guide the im­ple­men­ta­tion of fu­ture ini­tia­tives to im­prove stu­dent per­for­mance.

The project seeks to con­tribute to the ad­min­is­tra­tion and gov­er­nance of the ed­u­ca­tion and train­ing sys­tem through ev­i­dence-based re­search. It al­so in­tends to de­liv­er in­sights in­to is­sues af­fect­ing learn­ing out­comes across pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary schools.