Nine more UG research grants awarded under US$10M World Bank project

Minister of Education, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine (centre) flanked by the second batch of research grant awardees and others.

Faculty members of the University of Guyana were yesterday provided with nine research grants, totalling US$248,522, by the Ministry of Education.

The grants were provided under the World Bank-funded US$10M Science and Technology Support Project’s Education Quality Improvement Programme, which supports more applied research towards meeting the critical needs for the former government’s Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).

Under this component of the project, 17 faculty members along with five co-researchers from overseas universities will be