Director of the Berbice Campus (UGBC) Professor Daizal Samad believes that the University of Guyana can operate better with a more contemporary administrative structure and he dropped a broad hint about the possibility of autonomy for the Tain facility.
“We don’t have effective systems where we measure teaching and we measure learning. We don’t have systems where our administration is streamlined and flexible and adaptable and immediately responsive to change”. If something happens at the university or in any environment that impacts the university, he said, there should be an element of predictability that the persons in charge can see it coming. “If you don’t have a clean, streamlined administration that has a degree of predictability through measurability, you will have somebody who says, “Oops! Look, the roof fall down”, rather than seeing it caving in weeks before”.
He is very optimistic that there can be the right leadership; “I think— give us 10 years— we had 50 years, and where are we—roofs are leaking, people are dissatisfied and disgruntled, and the university is in perpetual deficit— 50 years of dilapidation…I think this
