Gov’t seeking to reverse near crisis in education – Roopnaraine

Guyana’s education system is at the “cusp of a service delivery crisis” due to systemic flaws which successive education ministers have failed to address, according to Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine.

Roopnaraine, in his presentation on the budget in the National Assembly last Friday, noted that what the new administration once viewed as incompetence has been recognised as a “reflection of very real technical limitations” within the sector.

The minister noted that the deficiencies within the sector were revealed by the audits commissioned a few weeks after he took office. The information provided by these audits have in the first phase led to the establishment of a Commission of Inquiry