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Cognisant of the pressure placed on young children when sitting the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), Minister of Education Priya Manickchand, has noted that the ministry is exploring whether this assessment should be stopped and instead, direct focus can be placed on ensuring an equal delivery of education. The NGSA is Guyana’s secondary school placement […]

A new secondary school will be constructed at Prospect, East Bank Demerara, to cater for some 1,000 students. The sod turning ceremony was held on Friday where Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand said the school will provide a comfortable learning environment and a high quality education. The construction of the school is made possible through […]

The Ministry of Education (MoE) has announced that secondary schools will re-open for face-to-face learning this month with grades 10, 11 and 12, but unvaccinated students will not be denied entry. In a statement issued on Thursday, the ministry said that grades 10, 11 and 12 will return to face-to-face learning in October but children […]

The government’s scholarship programme, Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) was on Saturday introduced in Region Three. The outreach was led by Minister of Education Priya Manickchand and Minister within the Ministry of Public Works, Deodat Indar, at the Leonora Synthetic Track and Field Facility. Scores of young people dominated the audience at the brief […]

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand on Wednesday declared the second smart classroom in Guyana open at Queen’s College in Georgetown. The classroom, which is the second of its kind in the public education sector, will not only benefit Queen’s College but will be used to reach students in other secondary schools across Guyana who can […]

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand visited the construction site for the new building which will house the St. Rose’s High School  on Tuesday to assess how the work is progressing and to address issues affecting the school. Minister Manickchand was accompanied by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education Alfred King, Special Projects Officer […]

More than 2,000 parents and guardians of students scheduled to write the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) were yesterday engaged by the Minister of Education Priya Manickchand to express their views and concerns regarding the sitting of this examination. The consultation was done in two virtual meetings. The first started at 10am with parents and […]

The sod was turned yesterday at the site of the planned Prospect Secondary School and Education Minister Priya Manickchand said it is expected to deliver quality secondary education to 1,000 students on the East Bank of Demerara. Speaking at a sod turning ceremony, Manickchand said the new school will serve to eradicate some of the […]

All schools, except for those levels that have already been reopened, will remain closed until the month of September, according to Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand. “We have taken a decision based on the advice of the Ministry of Health to remain closed for the rest of the school year (or) academic year, which ends […]

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, has emphasised that making all schools equal does not mean that the ministry will take away from the existing top schools, noting that a “constructive conversation” must surround the discussion on secondary school placement. Manickchand said this while answering questions at the announcement of the 2020 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) […]