EDUCATION IN GUYANA

Written by Keisha Stephney
In Guyana today, education has its ups and its downs.
The Education system in Guyana has a lot of work to do in order to make sure that Guyana’s generation has a chance in securing a sound education.
In 2011,164 teachers were dismissed for breach of contract, sexual abuse among other things.
Teachers should not only be trained educationally alone but they should have some form of training on how to deal with situations that can occur at any given time.
There was also the Dismissal University of Guyana Political Science Lecturer Mr. Freddie Kissoon, this was because of political Issues.
There was also the discussion of bringing in teachers while we have well qualified teachers here.
The education sector has to revise their system in order for Guyana to be the cream of the crop again.
Guyana was once the cream of the crop in the Caribbean we were once Producing more Graduates more than any Caribbean country.
There are also many obstacles that prevent students not progress in society today.
There are domestic problems, rape in most cases “incest” for many families today, poverty, and the lost of a parent, divorce, separation and finical problems among many other circumstances.
Many Youths also of today do not have a sound education background, as a matter of fact many of them never went to school or Lessons.
This can be the cause of uneducated parents in most cases, not having someone to guide them through life on how to make good choices, nor morals, etc.
Also many of the youths are not even interested in having a sound education they say “Why have an education when there are no jobs being provided for them”.
Many young people are leaving Guyana in order to have a better education and life. This cause serious brain drain in the country.
Education in Guyana is provivided both publicly and privately in the different parts of the country.
The statutory age of beginning school in Guyana is five years, nine months and students are required to attend school until age sixteen.