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UGBC trains CPCE teachers in ICT course
Secondary School CPCE Teacher-trainees in Berbice in the UGBC Laboratory
Teacher-trainees of the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) on the Corentyne are currently benefiting from instructional lessons in Computer Science under the auspices of the University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC).
The campus extended a helping hand to secondary teachers a few months ago and opened its John’s Campus location to them (the teachers).
The trainees were previously accommodated at the J.C. Chandisingh Secondary School at Rose Hall Town.
Cramped for space and poor seating facilities, the trainees then occupied the UGBC John’s location and are comfortably pursuing their training there.
The trainees will be using UGBC computer laboratory for three weeks, on Mondays and Wednesdays from 15:00 hrs –17:30 hrs.
Director of UGBC, Professor Daizal Samad, praised the team who will be spearheading the training of the teachers. The team comprises of Lecturer, Kemuel Gaffar, as well as Carl Merai, Satesh Baboolallal and Darell Mona, the computer technicians at UGBC.
Prof. Samad, in his remarks to the teacher trainees during the launching ceremony, urged the trainees to use the equipment in the laboratory with utmost respect and care.
He said that the move to lend support to CPCE in Berbice stems from his belief that teachers are being trained under “inappropriate circumstances”.
“I therefore made the decision—made the move—to get UGBC on board to improve the conditions under which you learn, so that we could improve your skill in teaching our children. We have 150,000 children in the County of Berbice, and they are in your hands,” Prof. Samad told the teacher- trainees.
He stated that UGBC is committed to assisting teachers in any way they can. He urged the trainees to share ideas with the university.
On March 22, Head of Centre of CPCE Berbice, Mr Moore, approached UGBC for assistance so that the teacher- trainees could complete the Preliminary Information Technology Course.
He said that UGBC responded within two-and-a-half-minutes and made the decision to have the trainees at UGBC. “I did not have to call a five- hour meeting or a six- hour meeting with fifty people, and listen to them spouting hot air. That is not the way I think we should go about business in this country and definitely not at the University of Guyana and definitely not UGBC, which is why our development [at UGBC] has been so rapid and so effective,” he said.
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