A contract  was yesterday signed between the Ministry of Education and Gafsons Industries Limited for solar photovoltaic systems at the Guyana Learning Channel facilities  in Aishalton and Karasabai in Region Nine.

Education Minister Priya Manickchand welcomed the agreement and stated that the project aligns with the Education Ministry’s goals to improve and expand access to quality secondary education while simultaneously developing the country’s TVET sector.

Though the Ministry of Education organised a massive countrywide exercise last week to distribute the $30,000 schoolchildren’s cash grant, just over 10,000 of those grants have not been collected.

All secondary school students in Guyana could have job-ready, technical and vocational skills and certification by the time they complete their studies as the Ministry of Education is pushing both academic and economic ‘viability’.