Short-listing for new UG vice-chancellor to be redone

-after flawed process

After short-listing candidates to be interviewed for the post of Vice-Chancellor at the University of Guyana, the new council has decided that it will have to be redone since significant flaws were found in the initial process.

“It appears as if the council was dissatisfied with the process used to identify persons to be interviewed for the position of Vice-Chancellor,” a source said.

Stabroek News was reliably informed that the process had been flawed since members of the selection committee utilised different approaches in assessing the candidates.  “They were looking for specific benchmarks and those benchmarks were not applied. The individuals who were asked to use benchmarks went ahead and used their