UG Vice-Chancellor urges new students to ‘cross sea’ to higher education

New students enrolled at the University of Guyana (UG) were on Friday urged by Vice-Chancellor Ivelaw Griffith to “cross the sea” to higher education.

Through a series of engaging exercises at the ceremonial opening of the new academic year, Griffith asked the students to follow the advice of Rabindranath Tagore, the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Griffith asked that students remember that “you can’t