Local quality assurance group set up to raise education standards

Core Group members of Guyana chapter of CANQATE: (From left) Outreach Coordinator Daniella King, Communication Coordinator Len Singh, Programme Coordinator Grace Allen, Michael Bradshaw, Administrator Natasha Singh, Curtis Floyd, Tota Mangar, Country Coordinator Vincent Alexander, Executive Member Wazir Bash and Mobilisation Coordinator Yvette Irving

Guyana is moving to raise the quality of post-secondary and tertiary education through the establishment of the Guyana Core Group of the Caribbean Area Network for Quality Assurance in Tertiary Education (CANQATE).

CANQATE was established in 2004 as a sub-network of the International Network for Quality Assurance Agencies in Higher Education, with the aim of enabling members to share information about the maintenance, evaluation, accreditation and improvement of higher education and to disseminate good practices in the field of quality assurance.

The National Accreditation Council of Guyana started work in 2004 in the field of quality assurance but the