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Putting contractors on notice that her Ministry will not be accepting substandard work and delays in the construction of buildings to house students, Education Minister, Priya Manickchand, yesterday turned the sod for the expansion of two schools in Georgetown. The total cost for constructing the extensions for the two schools, East Ruimveldt Secondary School and […]

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand visited the island of Wakenaam in Region Three on Monday to engage parents of learners attending the Arthurville Primary School and address their concerns about the deteriorating school building. Due to the worsening condition of the school’s physical structure over the years, it was decided in March of this year […]

A $5.5m Smart Classroom was commissioned yesterday afternoon at St. Stanislaus College, Brickdam, Georgetown, by the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand. A Ministry of Education release said that the Smart Classroom is accessorized with an interactive board and camera, along with a desktop and laptop computers. The project involved the rehabilitation of the room including […]

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday commissioned a $28.7m primary school at Swan Village, Linden-Soesdyke Highway. The school was officially opened on September 5, 2022 and has 109 pupils and six teachers. The Swan Primary School comprises class rooms for grades 1-5. A class for Grade 6 is underway along with living quarters for teachers. […]

Amesha La Rose, a fifth form student of St Ignatius Secondary, Region Nine, is happy to be back in the classroom despite the current anxiety about rising COVID-19 cases across the country.  Although La Rose acknowledges that there are dangers with the number of COVID-19 cases rising, suspected to be driven by the presence of […]

There have been significant learning losses, including school dropouts, resulting from the changes to the delivery of education because of the COVID-19 pandemic and it is for this reason Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has emphasised that schools need to remain open. Manickchand reminded reporters on Friday that the ministry had been engaged in a […]

Almost every grade could remain open during the upcoming July/ August break should the ongoing children’s diagnostic assessment indicate that there are numerous learning gaps, Education Minister Priya Manickchand has said. At the sidelines of an event on Wednesday, Minister Manickchand told the News Room that keeping schools open throughout the break is only one […]

The National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) is Guyana’s secondary school placement examination but Education Minister Priya Manickchand said that reforming this high-stakes assessment is being explored. Manickchand, while addressing an event at St. Winifride’s Secondary School on Monday, said that the NGSA could still be used as an examination to identify “gifted” children and place […]

Though the Ministry of Education organised a massive countrywide exercise last week to distribute the $30,000 schoolchildren’s cash grant, just over 10,000 of those grants have not been collected. As such, Education Minister Priya Manickchand said that those unclaimed grants will be distributed later this month- on a single day that will be communicated to […]

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand is confident that Universal Secondary Education will be a reality by 2025. Over the past few days, Manickchand visited the construction sites of the St. Rose’s High School and the Yarrowkabra Secondary School which will be a new addition to the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, a release from the Ministry of Education […]