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A total of 3,876 Guyanese are graduating today from the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL). Through the programme, the graduates have achieved their Bachelor’s degrees, Master’s degrees and Doctorates, with just over 1,300 receiving certificate and vocational awards. In his address to the graduates at the National Cultural Centre this morning, Prime Minister […]
More than 1,000 recommendations have been submitted to the Ministry of Education to assist in shaping the Anti-Bullying and Anti-Violence Policy for schools. The recommendations include key proposals calling for the establishment of anti-bullying clubs, the nurturing of peer advocates, increased and improved counseling services and stricter punishment like community service or withholding of the […]
Two teachers attached to the David Rose Special Education Needs School have been sent on leave as an investigation has been launched into alleged acts of abuse against young students of the school. In a video recording posted on social media, the teachers were caught on camera in the classroom hitting students with what appears […]
Still concerned about the failing Mathematics grade in schools, the Ministry of Education has rolled out a National Mathematics Task force. The new initiative and body seek to examine current performance trends across all school levels and craft a comprehensive, sustainable strategy to improve mathematics performance nationally, the Ministry of Education announced. It was explained […]
Minister of Education, Sonia Parag, has announced that the Ministry of Education has rolled out a number of interventions that are expected to see improvements in the pass rate for Mathematics at both the National Grade Six Assessment Exams (NGSA) and the Caribbean Secondary Examination Council (CSEC) exams. Speaking during a recent interview, the Minister […]
Over 15,500 students are in the final stages of preparing to sit this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) exams next week. Longstanding Grade Six teacher and founder of Revon’s Academy, Ms. Revon Boyle, who has been assessing the examinations while looking at important trends and reoccurring topics, is urging the students to pay keen […]
Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Sir Ronald Saunders, has announced that the University Council has received twenty-seven applications for the position of Vice-Chancellor and Principal. In a statement, the University said the applications follow an extensive and widely circulated international search conducted by a Council-appointed Search Committee, which invited submissions up to the closing […]
While calling for there to be continuous transformation of education across the Region, Guyana’s Minister of Education, Sonia Parag, has warned that while the Region must embrace technological changes to learning and teaching, the literacy and numeracy model adopted by the Region and Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) must not be abandoned, stating that slower learners […]
By Svetlana Marshall Stabroek News – one of Guyana’s longest running independent newspapers – printed its last edition this morning, bidding farewell to the country’s media landscape after 39 years. Known as the “newspaper of record”, from the time of it first edition, Stabroek News in November 1986, the newspaper was seen as championing democracy, […]
Founder and Executive Director of STEMGuyana, Karen Abrams, sees access to finance to fuel the vision of the organisation as a major challenge. STEMGuyana has a mandate to build Guyana’s tech future one child at a time. In an interview that will air this Sunday on SOURCES, Ms. Abrams explained that when the organization was […]
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