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The Region One Administration is in the process of embarking on a number of projects that are aimed at ensuring learning takes place in a more comfortable environment.

Over two hundred (200) students of Paruima, Region Seven will benefit from the construction of a new primary school, this year. This is a reflection of the government’s effort to ensure that every child has access to…

The Education Act in its current form does not have sufficient clout to regulate the operations of private institutions. Moreover, there are plans apace to have the Act revised.

The Hot Meal programme has been extended in Potaro-Siparuni, Region Eight to include Campbelltown Nursery and Micobie Primary school.

The regularisation of all private education institutions will be provided for under the new Education Act. Currently, only 20 per cent are recognised and registered with the Ministry of Education.

Lindeners yesterday took to the streets in their numbers, some to gyrate and flounce behind the few floats and others to line the roadways to watch the colorful spectacle.

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The Ministry of Education, Department of Culture, Youth and Sport will be piloting the Grade Maker initiative to improve students’ performance, based on individual needs.

Technical Advisor, Tertiary Education to the Minister of Education, Vincent Alexander has confirmed that the report of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the state of the education system will be completed this month.

The Commission of Inquiry which is being conducted into the public education system, was supposed to have been completed by December last, and submitted to the Education Minister, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine.

The government has agreed to include relevant information on the Guyana-Venezuela border controversy into the public schools’ curriculum.

The non-governmental organisation, Sustained Youth Development and Research Incorporated (SSYDR), is collaborating with government, and working closely with the courts and the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) to provide…