Latest update April 18th, 2025 8:12 AM

Guyana's largest selling daily and New York's most popular weekly

Latest News

Teacher Training — key to upping Education Standards

Nov 16, 2012 Letters

Dear Editor,
At the last CXC Exams, the West Coast Demerara School, the Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN), was outstanding in its total results, doing much better than most of the traditional “super” schools of Georgetown.
Someone had written a letter giving reasons for SVN’s remarkable achievement (e.g. banning private lessons), and advocating that the school be studied by the Caribbean Exams Council and by the Ministry of Education.
The one important factor in achieving such remarkable results by SVN which the letter-writer omitted to mention was the fact that the school methodically carries out its own teacher-training programes, both locally and overseas.
I recently came across a past newspaper of July 2012 where there was a report that the school was able to enjoy the confidence and gracious generosity of the Ramnarayan family of the USA who granted full scholarships to three students of Saraswati Vidya Niketan to pursue degrees at first class American colleges.
These students have now returned and are teaching at SVN. The school has also provided scholarships for Cyril Potter training. Accordingly SVN is building up a high grade professional teaching staff reminiscent of the old Queen’s College.
All secondary schools need to take a page out of SVN’s book and the Ministry of Education should induce them to help themselves and not to sit aimlessly waiting on Government-sponsored scholarships.
It may profit the Ministry to try to keep in close contact with Swami Aksharanand who is committed to raising moral and educational standards of Guyana and who is successfully doing so.
Name Withheld

Similar Articles

The Glenn Lall Show|| April, 14th, 2025

 

 

Follow on Tik Tok @Glennlall

THE BLUNT OF THE DAY

Sports

Milo/Massy U-18 Football semifinals postponed due to inclement weather

Milo/Massy U-18 Football semifinals postponed due to inclement

Apr 18, 2025

Kaieteur Sports- As previously scheduled, the highly anticipated semifinal matchups in the 11th edition of the Milo/Massy Secondary Schools Under-18 Football Championship have been postponed due to...
Read More
Fruta Conqueror-GDF FC to headline Sunday’s Elite League showdown

Fruta Conqueror-GDF FC to headline Sunday’s...

Apr 18, 2025

Affiance surge to 51-run win in NECC/Samaroo Investment T20

Affiance surge to 51-run win in NECC/Samaroo...

Apr 18, 2025

Savory named skipper of Guyana Rainforest Rangers

Savory named skipper of Guyana Rainforest Rangers

Apr 18, 2025

Jamaica ease to 7-wicket win over Guyana in low-scoring affair 

Jamaica ease to 7-wicket win over Guyana in...

Apr 18, 2025

Essequibo Legends record victory in ESCL T20 competition

Essequibo Legends record victory in ESCL T20...

Apr 18, 2025

Features/Columnists

  • A Different Silence

    Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Good Friday in Guyana is not what it used to be. The day has lost its hush. There was a... more

Publisher’s Note

Freedom of speech is our core value at Kaieteur News. If the letter/e-mail you sent was not published, and you believe that its contents were not libellous, let us know, please contact us by phone or email.

Feel free to send us your comments and/or criticisms.
Contact: 624-6456; 225-8452; 225-8458; 225-8463; 225-8465; 225-8473 or 225-8491.
Or by Email: [email protected] / [email protected]

Weekend Cartoon

Bridge Watch

Demerara Harbour Bridge

> Berbice Bridge […]