Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams will be presenting proposals to Cabinet to alleviate the financial burden placed on Guyanese law students by the recent hike in fees at the Hugh Wooding Law School.
Hugh Wooding, located on the St Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies recently announced a more than 30% increase in its tuition fees as well as changes in its payment scheme which would require prospective and continuing students to pay 100% of their fees at the beginning of the school year. Guyanese students will now have to pay $5.8 million (TT$182,028) for the two-year programme to obtain their Legal Education Certificate (LEC) from the Trinidad-based law school. They previously paid $4.2 million (TT$131,400) for the two-year programme.
Students also previously had the option to pay 50% of the fees at the beginning of
