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This must not happen at UG

Jul 09, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The University of Guyana (UG) has a new Vice Chancellor in Professor Lawrence Carrington, he has taken over the reigns of power at our tertiary institution making sweeping changes, which in his words, “makes this premier education facility a modern entity”
One of the changes put forward by the professor is to have the University of Guyana tied to the University of the West Indies on certain programmes. While I welcome changes to my alma mater, I am gravely concerned at the motives of this “new broom” and I make this statement with the backdrop of what took place with the Law programme of our University.

The University of Guyana’s Law programme was considered substandard and as such the University of the West Indies stepped in “to help” this sister institution. We are all well aware of what took place thereafter, the Legal Education Board of the Caribbean was set up and UG’s Law programme is now subjected to the dictates of the UWI, suffice to say that the students of this substandard University are always at the top of the class at the Trinidad based institution. Therefore there must have been something not substandard of UG that brings these kinds of results year after year and definitely not a substandard issue the UWI had with UG, there was an ulterior motive of the UWI. So I am very wary of these expatriates who ride into town with their lofty ideas speaking in condescending language in a quest to help UG, they are up to no good and mean quite the opposite to what they are saying.

Let me tell you a story, a true story, that took place here in St Lucia. A student came to the Mathematics teacher for him to work out a math problem (that teacher is a University of Guyana Diploma graduate) the teacher did just that whereupon the completion of the exercise promptly threw the scrap into the bin. As he was about to leave the general area, something caught his eye, a fellow math teacher, a University of the West Indies graduate was seen rummaging in the bin for the scrap work sheet. The UWI teacher was the reason behind the student approaching the UG graduate for a solution to the problem. There are countless stories involving UG graduates and those of the UWI, in many other disciplines that space in this column would not afford me and for this cause UG has created an envy of its counterpart institution UWI. This envy has reached epidemic proportion to the extent that self preservation on their part would cause them to seek the demise of UG.

Graduates of the University of Guyana has shown to the world over that we have what it takes in academia, thanks to our training at UG. The public relations of the Guyanese institution bear recognition in the quality of its graduates worldwide.
We are some way away from the bar when you consider a tertiary institution, we are not financially endowed as do others, which is the main bugbear to development at UG, but we will get there. However, I will not sit idly by and allow our university to be beaten into subserviency by an institution or by its agents whose intentions are to hinder and not to help. I do hope the Minister of Education sees this article and proceed with caution at these overtures of this new Vice Chancellor.
Neil Adams

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