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A parent's dream is to see their children grow up and be better than they were and make a living for themselves.

Sadly for 41-year-old Fitzroy Taylor, he said that his daughter's dream of attending the University of Technology has been put on hold because of the Caribbean Examination Council.

He explained to The STAR that in May 2018, his daughter sat the English exam privately at the CSEC level, while she did her CAPE exams.

He said that she has got all her exam results except English and it is stopping her educational progress.

"She applied for UTech because she wants to study hospitality and tourism and they emailed her saying they are waiting on the English," he said.

The father of three said that he is worried because he does not want this to affect her emotionally or mentally.

"She was doing CAPE and CSEC English and I realised that English clashed with another subject. I went to CXC and asked for a transfer of venue because she was supposed to do the English exam at Yallahs High School, but she would have been all the way at St Thomas Technical doing her CAPE subjects. I paid $5,000 for the transfer so I don't understand what is happening," he said.

Enquiries

Taylor said that in July 2018, when he realised that his daughter did not get her English results, he made enquiries at the CXC office.

He said that he gave the person he spoke with a copy of all the receipts signed by the invigilator to show that she did her exam and he also gave them a copy of the receipt he got regarding a change in where she did the exam.

"When I went to CXC, they said it must be an oversight so I wrote them a letter and they copied everything," he said. "I waited three weeks and when I went to them again, they are saying Barbados has her as absent.

I gave them more time to investigate and I was constantly communicating with them; they got the proof that she sat the exam but CXC out here is not getting anywhere with Barbados. How can she be absent and the invigilator signed her receipt?"

THE STAR reached out to the Overseas Examinations Council, Trudy-Anne M Riley, director, marketing and customer relations, said the entity was "investigating the chain of events".

"We have to start at the beginning of the process because of the initial response from CXC which is that she is absent," she said. "When it will be resolved, I'm not able to say because it is a very unusual situation and so it has been prioritised.

But based on the process that it has to go through and the time that has elasped, we cannot give a specific time frame. We are working the investigation; it is not something that lies in our hands only and so we can't say how long it is going to take. We are aware that it is a matter of urgency."

Taylor laments that he just wants answers.

"It can't be that she went to class, studied, paid for the subject, paid for the change of centre and there is no result. She is devastated because everyone has moved on and she has not.

She is doing youth service but it is just for a while. My fear is that I will have to send her back to class to re-sit an exam that she has already done," he said.