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Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, on Thursday commissioned a Smart Classroom at the Leonora Secondary School in Region Three, Essequibo Islands-West Demerara. Minister Manickchand said that she was extremely happy about the occasion since it is the first Smart Classroom to be commissioned in Region Three. She noted, however, that soon additional smart classrooms will […]

Teachers who are first-time homeowners will be able to access up to $12 million from a revolving fund set up by the Ministry of Education; the funds can be used to aid with their mortgages. This was announced by Education Specialist at the Ministry of Education, Olato Sam on Wednesday. Sam was speaking at the […]

Guyanese students will soon be able to access online tertiary programmes from six universities when the Ministry of Education (MoE) launches the National Open Learning Institute at the end of this month. According to Director (pro tempore) Dr Jacob Opadeyi, the institute will launch with an offer of 4,540 scholarship placements at Universities such as […]

A new nursery school with modern amenities, which will also accommodate facilities for persons living with disabilities, will be constructed at Martyrs’ Ville, on the East Coast of Demerara. The sod-turning ceremony for the $89 million project was held on Tuesday; once completed, the school will assist with the overcrowding at the Mon Repos Nursery […]

The review process being conducted by the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) 2020 results is further delayed due to a lockdown in Barbados. The CXC Headquarters is based in Barbados. Minister Manickchand was hoping to announce the results on Wednesday. These exams were […]

Queen’s College has been recognised as the School of the Year for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE), at the Caribbean Examinations Council’s 2020 awards ceremony held in Antigua and Barbuda. Guyana was the recipient of seven awards at the CSEC and CAPE levels during the event. These […]

Secondary school students along the Essequibo Coast and the Pomeroon will no longer have to leave their homes to travel to Georgetown to write their Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE). The Anna Regina Secondary School has become the first in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) to offer CAPE subjects to students who have completed the Caribbean Secondary […]

With a slowdown in the vaccination rate of children between the ages of 12 and 17 and the vaccination for younger children yet to begin, the Minister of Education Priya Manickchand made it clear today that unvaccinated children will not be blocked from attending classes. Less than 30% of children between the ages of 12 […]

Ahead of the release of the results of this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations and the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE), Guyana has been engaging the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) on some ‘ungraded’ results. The results for the Caribbean were announced at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre at Liliendaal, Georgetown on Thursday. There, […]

The Education Bill that was presented to the National Assembly in 2014 could help the Education Ministry get much-needed information from private schools. This is according to the newly crafted Education Sector Plan for the period 2021 to 2025; this plan was launched at the beginning of September, coinciding with the observances for education month […]