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- Yarrowkabra Secondary School is ahead of schedule with 65% of work completed
(October 10, 2022) – With the construction of new secondary schools across Guyana, the Honourable Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand said that Universal Secondary Education will be a reality by 2025.
(August 24, 2022) – On June 19, 2021, the North Ruimveldt Secondary School was destroyed by fire. On that day, the Honourable Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand said that the school will be rebuilt. Today, a contract with a project sum of $566.9M was signed for the reconstruction of the school.
(April 3, 2023) – The National Science Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics Fair has returned this year with a ceremony held this morning where the Honourable Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand declared it open.
(June 25, 2022) – The Ministry of Education has begun training teachers and pupils representing a wide cross section of schools at the primary level about the renewed curriculum.
(February 27, 2023) – The Ministry of Education through the National Literacy Department and the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD), launched the Literacy and Robotics Programme at the Den Amstel Primary School in Region Three today.
(October 20, 2022) -The Honourable Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand on Thursday afternoon commissioned a Smart classroom at St. Stanislaus College.
(February 22, 2023) – Education delivery in the Upper Takatu-Upper Essequibo region (Region 9) will see massive transformation with the construction of a modern secondary school at Karasabai.
(February 22, 2023) – Pupils in Kokshebai, South Pakaraimas will no longer have to walk for miles to receive an education with the commissioning of a brand new school right in their village.
(November 28, 2022) – Early childhood education is on the trajectory to be transformed with the commissioning of the Early Childhood Centre of Excellence at the University of Guyana, Turkeyen Campus.
– Min Manickchand satisfied with work
– to be handed over next week
The $1B Westminster Secondary School currently being constructed at La Parfaite Harmony, Region Three (Essequibo Island- West Demerara), is expected to be completed by the end of this month.
- to be handed over in new week
Eleven Secondary school-aged students from each district who were successful in the Friendship Youth Leadership Competition, on Friday, received $200,000 (US $1000) and other awards from the Ministry of Education and the embassy of the People’s Republic of China.
Minister of Education, Hon. Priya Manickchand says parents/ guardians will not be limited to purchasing school items with the Government’s $3.2B Because We Care and school items cash grants.
…“we will serve you and we will serve you equitably”
The education sector budget has an allocation of over $500 million earmarked for the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) to go fully online with its teachers’ training programme.
– schools to be retrofitted to ‘exist in a COVID-19 world’
-$300M for Learning Channel expansion, new radio station
– $3B to support UG
Minister of Education Priya Manickchand witnessed the signing of the contract. She said the fire which gutted the school has had a devastating impact, even in the school being forced to reduce its intake.
THE Ministry of Education on Tuesday began the distribution of the education cash grant across the country as parents of school-aged children turned up at schools to uplift their vouchers in the sum of $30,000.
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