Issues and challenges in the new academic year In this issue the Guyana Review publishes a collection of articles that address themes and issues in the development of the education system.
Issues and challenges in the new academic yearIn this issue the Guyana Review publishes a collection of articles that address themes and issues in the development of the education system.
Issues and challenges in the new academic year (Cont’d) By Dr Leyland Mason As happens every year in September and October, Education Month and International Teachers’ Day will be observed in 2009.
The new school year is just around the corner and I guess a mixture of excitement, nervousness and confidence is in the air.
Issues and challenges in the new academic year (Cont’d) There is significant proportion of untrained nursery and primary teachers.
Issues and challenges in the new academic year (Cont’d) Education has evolved to such a stage that no longer is the chalk and talk by the teacher absolute.
Issues and challenges in the new academic year (Cont’d) In the days leading to the publication of this issue The Guyana Review spoke with a number of teachers and with an education administrator about the problem of discipline in schools.
Issues and challenges in the new academic year (Cont’d) Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and in keeping with Articles 28 and 29, UNICEF-Guyana advocates for and facilitates education as a right, and uses education to support results in health, nutrition and protection for the realization of other rights.
For the thirteen pre-secondary children who participated in the inaugural programme of Manners Matter, a one-week summer orientation exercise run by the Visions of Excellence Resource Development Centre, the time could hardly have been better spent.
Rhoda Reddock 10th W. G. Demas Memorial Lecture Tuesday 26, May 2009 Part 1 Professor Reddock is a distinguished Caribbean academic and the holder of the Seventh Caricom Triennial Award I would like to begin by thanking my former campus Principal, Prof.
By Michael Whayl I couldn’t bring myself to do it. The thought of compounding the wrong that I had already done seemed, somehow, repulsive, as if I was surrendering to the commonplace culture of offering blandishments in exchance for illicit favours.
However much we love our cricket, Caribbean people are not waiting anxiously for the game to heal itself.
The 30th Regular Meeting of the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Heads of Government convened in Georgetown earlier this month can hardly be said to have taken place under the most convivial of circumstances.
Education Established forty-six years ago in inappropriate premises, with inadequate staffing, insufficient funding and unsatisfactory laboratory and library facilities, the University of Guyana has underperformed because it is still underdeveloped and under-resourced.
Security Community policing has the potential to contribute measurably to human security and public safety.
Education By Cleveland Sam Over the last two weeks the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has honoured just over 100 persons from across the region who are dubbed “Members of the CXC Class of ’79.’
Politics Forbes Burnham’s death nearly twenty-four years ago created a chronic crisis of confidence in the leadership of the People’s National Congress.
Society No other poor Caribbean country can equal Guyana’s extraordinary record of destruction of government buildings by arson.
Education Address to the Guyana Manufacturers and Services Association by Professor Lawrence Carrington, Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2009 Thank you for this opportunity to speak to your association so soon after my appointment to the University of Guyana.
Book Review Paulette Bybie and Denise Symmons Infusing Climate Change into the schools curriculum is one of the important challenges that the country’s education system will have to confront in the years ahead as Guyana, the region and the international community as a whole seek to pay greater attention to the impact of Climate Change on life as we know it.
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