Lack of funding stifling UG’s output of engineering, science graduates

Leader of the Opposition and A Partnership for National Unity, David Granger says the lack of funding to the University of Guyana (UG) has stifled its ambitions of producing individuals with the requisite skillset to bolster national sectors that depend heavily on engineering and science.

“More has to be done to develop STEM (Science, Technology and Mathematics) at UG,” Granger said last Friday, while calling for improvements to be made to the university’s libraries, laboratories and lecture theatres.

He made the calls at a press conference, where he was