No one who is familiar with the faltering academic standards and squalid physical conditions at the University of Guyana’s central Turkeyen campus should have been surprised at the desperate tone of Vice-Chancellor Dr James Rose’s address to the 40th convocation congregation.
The pitiable quality of tertiary education in this country is a national tragedy and Dr Rose’s remarks did nothing to erase public scepticism about UG’s decline. He did make it clear, however, that much more needs to be done if the Guyana Government is to transform UG into a centre of academic excellence and if this country is ever to compete with other Caribbean economic ‘tigers’ such as Trinidad and Barbados. UWI’s campuses there have become platforms for the new administrative, managerial, scientific and entrepreneurial
