Education

GOAL exceeds expectations as more than 3800 graduate today -PM Phillips

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 […]

Over 1000 recommendations received for Anti-bullying and Anti-violence policy for schools

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 […]

National Mathematics Task Force launched to craft comprehensive plan to improve performance in Mathematics

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 […]

Education Ministry rolling out additional plans to improve Mathematics pass rate

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 […]

Teacher Revon urges NGSA students to pay keen attention to topics that appeared in Mock Exams

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 […]

27 applications received for UG Vice Chancellor post

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 […]

Education Minister warns against sacrificing classroom interaction with technological changes to learning

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 […]

Stabroek News ends operations after 39 years

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, […]

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