Process to effect national science policy begins

The Ministry of Education with support from UNESCO yesterday opened a three-day implementation workshop for the recently completed National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy.

The workshop aims to instruct its participants on how to use a monitoring and evaluating approach in the implementation of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Policy. It will see the participants who include members of the National Science, Technology and Innovation Council, the Bureau of Statistics, University of Guyana, ministries of Agriculture, Education, Finance, Natural Resources and the Environment and the private sector being educated on the national policy and its linkage to a number of indicators by the two UNESCO facilitators Martin Schaaper and Ernesto Fernandez Polcuch.

Noting that the organisations involved are seeking to monitor the implementation of the