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…Linden legal aid receives more funds than Regions 2 and 6 I saw an article in the Kaieteur News edition of 26th March 2012 titled “Govt. chided for not funding legal aid in Linden” The article reported that the President of the Guyana Association of Women Lawyers, [GAWL] Ms. Emily Dodson made her remarks at a […]

Government has begun consultations to gather input into the possibilities of abolishing corporal punishment in the school system. Over the weekend, on national televisions, Education Minister Priya Manickchand held a panel discussion which included the likes of Dominic Gaskin, Executive Member of the Alliance for Change (AFC); Karen De Souza, Head of Red Thread and […]

-wider consultations to begin shortly As Government moves to begin a series of rigorous consultations, garnering the inputs of the grassroots with respect to abolishing corporal punishment in the school system, Education Minister, Priya Manickchand held a panel discussion on the latter on Saturday evening on the National Communications Network (NCN). The panel discussion, which also […]

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand says ministry views the Auditor General’s report as a management tool and will do its best to ensure that the pronouncements made in the report are addressed and that there are no repeats. The 2010 report commented on a number of issues concerning the ministry, including a $110 million contract […]

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, is confident that the US$10M World Bank University of Guyana (UG) Science and Technology Support Project is closer to becoming a reality. During an interview with this publication yesterday, Manickchand indicated the Ministry and University’s readiness to approach the Minister of Finance next week to sign the loan document with […]

“We know in many cases children are doomed to fail because their teachers didn’t do what they were suppose to do,” said Chief Education Officer, Olato Sam, as he engaged an intense deliberation with teachers of South Georgetown recently. He was at the time addressing the Non-Repetition and Automatic Promotion Programme, which was introduced some […]

To say that we need to educate our ‘people’ to progress in this 21st century has now become quite clichéd. It is not that we have not explored the exhortation: we have referred earlier this week to the efforts of the Ministry of Education to better deliver the goals of improved literacy and numeracy to […]

A senior Guyanese educator currently serving in the state school system has told Stabroek Business that some books delivered to schools by the Ministry of Education’s Book Distribution Unit (BDU) have included copied texts, which constitute a violation of the copyright law. The educator said there was no question than that large numbers of copied […]

THE seventh Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Education was hosted in Suriname recently, through the Organisation of American States (OAS), to devise ways in which to transform the role of teachers to meet the challenges of the 21st Century.  The objective was to analyse the current status of the teaching profession in the various regions […]

Having pumped just about $24 million, apart from teachers’ salaries, into the education sector on an annual basis, the government, through the Priya Manickchand-headed Ministry of Education, is determined to reap value for money at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) Examination.  A review of current capital type investment has suggested that “we are […]