If the University of Guyana (UG) is to attract the knowledge of additional PhD-level academic staff to add to the meagre 3% it possesses, it may very well have increase current salaries by as much as 200%, according to a consultant, who added that while the cost might seem steep, it would be far costlier to have an ignorant population.
Trevor Hamilton of Trevor Hamilton and Associates, whose consulting services were contracted to facilitate the ‘Enhancement of the Regulatory Framework for the Improvement of Opera-tions at the University of Guyana,’ made the comment during the opening ceremony of a series of workshops held to discuss the findings of his consultations with stakeholders.
He stated that as Caricom’s fastest growing economy, Guyana is seeing the expansion of several of its sectors, crucial to this development. As such, a university is instrumental in producing the required human resources to fill positions in these sectors. However, the exact opposite is happening.
Hamilton said that every four years the country loses 85% of its graduates; furthermore, many of the graduates
