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Education Ministry records noteworthy traffic on new website

Sep 17, 2014 News

Having launched a refined website in July of this year, the Ministry has recorded an increase in the number of users accessing the site.
The Ministry in a statement issued yesterday indicated that from July 2014 to date, it has been able to record 35,143 unique visitors to its website. This means that according to the Ministry’s analysis, 35,143 persons have visited its website at least once between July and September 15, 2014.
Although a significant number of users are from Guyana, the Ministry has noted that users from several other countries including China, France, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Jamaica, Spain, Germany, and Great Britain have also frequented the website.
In addition, the Ministry said that it is pleased to inform that it has recorded 4,941,840 hits during the aforementioned period.
The new website is in line with the Ministry’s efforts to meet the needs of the modern dynamic global environment of which Guyana’s education system is a part. As an interactive portal with access to a wide variety of essential online information concerning the local education sector, this new website is designed to be easily utilized by parents, teachers and students of all grades. The Ministry sees the establishment of the website as critical to further enhancing public engagement and interaction, the statement added.
Some of the information on the site ranges from curriculum guides, past test papers, Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination syllabuses, to colouring packets and interactive videos for nursery children, interactive quizzes for primary age children from grades 2-6, tips for parents and teachers, as well as a host of education policy documents among other important information.
With all stakeholders in mind, the Ministry of Education introduced its dynamic and versatile website which can be found at www.education.gov.gy. The website is in fact an intensely modified version of the Ministry’s previous website which was quite limited in its offerings.
Moreover, it was in order to cater to a growing online following that Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, mandated her Information Systems Unit to put measures in place for a more interactive website.
According to Minister Manickchand, her Ministry is cognisant of the fact that Guyana currently functions in a modern world where information and Communication Technologies play critical roles in the communication processes, like the rest of the world. It is for this reason, she noted, that the Ministry had long decided to embrace the progressive march of technology.
“With all secondary schools projected to have computer laboratories by the end of 2014, with more than 90, 000 Guyanese targeted to benefit from the One Laptop Per Family initiative…with more access to and use of smart phones, this website is going to be highly useful to all education stakeholders,” the Education Minister posited.
At the launch of the website she had informed that although currently the Education Ministry has in place some of the “most beautiful policies and programmes and resources” the challenge had been to make these known to the people who should use them and implement them effectively.
“Even as we make significant and strong efforts to strengthen implementations of our policies, we are making real efforts to make our material and personnel more accessible with a strong presence on social media – Facebook and Twitter – we have established hotlines,” the Minister had proudly informed.
On the very day of the website’s launch, the Ministry had recorded in excess of 200,000 hits and over 34,000 pages were viewed by the public.

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