Sun, Jul 5, 2026
Sun, Jul 5, 2026
education
$16.3M Mobile Counselling Unit for studentsIn an effort to provide welfare services to students with minimal resources, the Education Ministry on Monday commissioned a mobile…
New awards introduced as UG set to graduate over 1,600 studentsAfter what was described as ‘a total disgrace’ last year, the University of Guyana has decided to host three Convocation…
Gov’t/ GTU sign agreement on wage increase, other benefitsThe Education Ministry and the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) on Wednesday afternoon signed an agreement to pave the way for…
World Bank ranks Guyana below Caribbean average on education, healthA World Bank report on the global state of human capital paints a grim picture of Guyana, revealing that this…
Teachers will benefit ‘significantly’ from deal with Gov’t – Union By Bibi Khatoon After a meeting, which lasted for six and a half hours, officials of the Education Ministry and…
Teachers, Government agree to salary increasesThe Union representing the country’s thousands of teachers have finally come to an agreement with the Government, staving off a…
All smiles as teachers, Gov’t anticipate resolution to wage disputeThe Ministry of Education and the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) are expecting to soon have a full resolution to the…
UG to honour four Guyanese with Honorary DoctoratesThe University of Guyana’s academic board has approved the petition of Vice Chancellor Ivelaw Griffith to confer Honorary Doctorates on…
Spanish added to curriculum of Police trainingThe Guyana Police Force has added Spanish into the curriculum of the Police training to better serve Spanish speaking persons…
29 Trainers sign contracts to improve Math performanceTo improve the overall performance of Mathematics among students at the secondary school level, the Education Ministry has begun training…
GTU prepared to go to court if gov’t penalizes teachersThe Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) says it is prepared to take the government to the court if action is taken…
US$8.8M contracts signed to build Secondary schoolsThe Ministry of Education today signed multi-million dollar contracts for the construction of two new Secondary schools on the coast.…
UG gets $5M for Constitutional Reform educationThe University of Guyana on Thursday received $5M from the Government to fund Constitutional Reform education. The cheque was handed…
Main unions back teachers in new strike threatThe two major trade union umbrella bodies in the country are likely to take to the streets in solidarity with…
Gov’t warns of ‘legal consequences’ if teachers strike againThe Ministry of Education has warned of legal consequences if teachers engage in any form of industrial action. Following nearly…
Teachers' Union says being bullied to accept Prof. Leyland Lucas to lead arbitration panelProfessor Leyland Lucas has been proposed by the Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour to head the arbitration panel…
Big jump seen in literacy, numeracy among 8,000 hinterland childrenAn estimated 8,000 hinterland nursery and primary-level (Grade One) children have seen significant improvements in emergent literacy and numeracy following…
150 youth benefited from ‘job readiness’ summer campSome 150 youths benefited from a ‘job readiness’ summer camp hosted by the Specialists in Sustained Youth Development and Research…
