Education
BREAKING: Public servants to get GYD$25,000 cash grant; teachers, joint services, health care workers among beneficiaries- President Ali
President Irfaan Ali on Thursday announced a GYD$25,000 "cash grant" for 60,000 government employees including public servants, members of the...
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Education Ministry to distribute electronic tablets to Hinterland; welcomes Ansa Mc Al Foundation’s donation
Managing Director of ANSA McAL Troy Cadogan, Member ofANSA McAL Foundation Dr. Paloma Mohamed-Martin and Minister of EducationPriya Manickchand. The...
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Free university education by end 2024- President Ali
President Irfaan Ali on Sunday night announced that his administration would be working to provide free education at the University...
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Three Guyanese for US Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative Fellowship
Three Guyanese youths have been selected to participate in the U.S. Department of State’s Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellowship...
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Education Ministry creates new post to “improve the integrity and structure” of the exams system
Mr. Ameer Ali Two months after a region-wide controversy over the accuracy of Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) results largely due...
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Guyana’s 20,000 scholarship negotiations with UWI fiercely criticised
The University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) is among those heaping criticism on the decision by the government to award...
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UWI, Guyana govt negotiating to train 20,000 Guyanese in five years
The Guyana government has asked the University of the West Indies (UWI) to train 20,000 Guyanese over the next five...
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Sexual Offences law now available for the blind
UNICEF Representative a.i. Irfan Akhtar hands over copies of the SexualOffences Act reproduced in braille to Executive Secretary to the...
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Overseas-based Guyanese can help craft national development plan- new US think-tank study; Guyana gets low marks
A new study by the Washington DC-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has given the Guyana government low...
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No data plan needed for several educational websites- GTT
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) on Thursday announced that it has inked a deal with the Ministry of Education...
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