Guyanese educator wins EU scholarship

Ambassador Robert Kopecký (left) and Lavern Thorne

Educator Lavern Thorne is the latest Guyanese to be awarded a full scholarship under the European Union’s Erasmus Mundus Scholarship programme to read for an International Masters in Early Childhood Education and Care at the Oslo and Akershus University in Norway, the EU delegation in Georgetown said in a press release yesterday.

The EU said that she will begin her studies in Norway from August for a five-month period and will also spend five months each in Malta and Ireland.

Thorne is currently employed at the Ministry of Education and is at