More than 1000 Region Ten students will soon have access to secondary education when the state-of-the-art Wisburg Secondary School is complete.

A Government Information Agency (GINA) press release said the $345.7M Wisroc school will boast information technology and science laboratories, a library, home economics and other departments and it is near completion. On Monday a high-level team of education officials, led by Minister of Education Shaik Baksh, visited the school to check on its progress. The contract for the construction of the school was signed in 2004 but initial works started in 2005. The school is funded by the UK Department for International Development and was executed under the Guyana Education Access Project.

GINA said the Wisburg Secondary students who are currently housed in the old St Aidans Primary School, first to third form students from the new St Aidans, Wismar Primary School students and students who will be allocated a place there on the completion of the Grade Six Assessment will be housed at the Wisroc school. The 2007 National Budget allocated $8.7M for the completion of the school in keeping with the administration’s commitment to provide quality education in a comfortable environment, the release said.