No politics at UG

Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith

Less than two weeks after he assumed office as the Tenth Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana Professor Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith has said that he is not prepared to be the VC of a university where politics intrudes and undermines the work of students and faculty.

Addressing the first conference of Education Resource Ambassadors last evening at the Marriott Hotel, the vice chancellor said, “Part of what I am talking about is this overtime on both the PNC watch and the PPP/C watch.” He added that an unmitigated disaster could be in the making by playing politics off against academics “in a way that is hurtful to the institution and hurtful to the education enterprise.”