When Tandy Tappin read for her degree in education, she faced years of trials and hardships, which included losing her only son as well as her mother in less than a year, all of which resulted in her graduating long after she was due. Two years later, she has graduated with her post-graduate degree in education administration and for her holding that certificate in her hands is testimony to her overcoming some of the hurdles life has thrown at her.
Tappin, who is the head of the business department at the Belladrum Secondary School, has always wanted to be a teacher and better equipping herself to shape the minds of the nation’s children was a must. So soon after she became a trained teacher, the University of Guyana was her next stop but upon reflection now she thinks that the years spent reading for her degree were the toughest.
