When the University of Guyana (UG) was established in 1963 by statute under the premiership of Dr. Cheddi Jagan it was designed to provide a place of education, learning and research of a standard required and expected of a university of the highest standard. Fifty years on, according to a recent consultancy for “the Review and Enhancement of the Regulatory Framework and Operational Processes, Systems and Structures at the University of Guyana”by Trevor Hamilton and Associates, financed by the Caribbean Development Bank, the institution is facing a multitude of problems, ranging from governance to maintenance, from teaching to administration, from research to finance. In what the authors describe as a Revised Draft Final Report they make twenty-seven recommendations to address not only the serious financial problems facing the University and its two campuses but also its entire structure and operations with their multitude of deficiencies, weaknesses and shortcomings.
Like the National Insurance Scheme the problems of the University have festered and worsened as the recommendations of successive
