Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand Monday met with 56 teachers who recently completed programmes offered through the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL). The meeting was held in the auditorium at National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD).
In brief remarks, the minister congratulated the teachers on completing their respective programmes. She noted that as Guyana evolves, teachers have a significant role to play in moulding the future generation.
The education minister highlighted that recently, an aggressive literacy campaign was launched. She said that the Literacy and Robotics programme is aimed at collectively changing the abilities of pupils in the nursery and primary levels.
She further added that monitoring the progress of the pupils is a key part of the programme. As such, the teachers who recently completed their programmes through GOAL would be an asset to the process.
Nine teachers completed their certificate in Primary Teaching offered by the Indira Ghandi Open University (IGNOU). Two completed their Post Graduate Diploma in Instructional Design and Technology, thirteen completed the Post Graduate Diploma in Literacy Instruction, eleven completed the Post Graduate in Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies and twenty-one now have a certificate in Teaching of Reading. All these programmes were offered by the University of the West Indies Open Campus (UWIOC).
Also present at the meeting were the Chief Education Officer, Mr Saddam Hussain, Assistant Chief Education Officer (Literacy), Ms Samantha Williams and Head of the Curriculum Unit Ms. Omawattie Ramdin.
While government continues to baost of increasing spending in education the students. According to World Bank October 2022 Fact Sheet Guyana lagd behind in Latin America and Caribbean counerparts. Per the Report “Although the education sector in Guyana has made remarkable progress in the last 15 years in terms of access, learning outcomes remain low across all levels. Guyana achieved 88 percent and 92 percent enrollment at the Nursery and Primary levels, respectively (2018). However, according to the Human Capital Index, a child born in Guyana today will only be 50 percent as productive when she grows up as she could be if she enjoyed complete education and full health. This is lower than the average for the LAC region and upper middle-income countries. The low human capital score is in part driven by low educational and health outcomes.”
