Trained, career teachers pivotal to reversing education decline -Granger

President David Granger (seventh from left) and GTU President Mark Lyte (sixth from left) with the awardees. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

The education system is in a state of crisis, President David Granger says, arguing that fully trained career teachers were key to reversing the decline.

Granger was at the time speaking at the Guyana Teachers Union “Teachers Award Ceremony” on Tuesday where he declared that teachers are the foundation on which a good education system is built and a good education system is the foundation on which any nation is built.

Echoing the theme of the event; “Empowering teachers: Building Sustainable Societies”, Granger noted that improvements in