We will be ready for the oil boom, only if…

Jun 23, 2015 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
It is quite astonishing the manner in which the capability of the University of Guyana to produce locally-bred scholars who can go on to adequately filling technical fields has for long now been assessed.
Equally astonishing is the fact that it is the privileged Guyanese – who would’ve had the opportunity to receive a first world education – who chide that which is provided locally. It is a well known fact that our local scholars who go on to pursue postgraduate studies overseas, shine as bright as their first world educated undergraduate peers, which leaves one to ponder, is it the curriculum that is weak or is it being weakly supported?
The oil and gas industry, being one that requires highly specialized personnel and one that will be new to Guyana, would undoubtedly present great challenges in finding locally qualified individuals to meet the needs of this industry, but I dare to say that we will be ready in the not so distant future should the auxiliary support be forthcoming from these multinational oil giants exploring our maritime territories for black gold.
The University of Guyana has been increasingly producing a surplus of graduates than there are jobs to accommodate. Being faced with the possibility of not earning a job placement after completion of studies, has forced many of the upcoming scholars to be more academically competitive.
We therefore have an ocean of scholars from various engineering disciplines such as mechanical, geological, civil, environmental and electrical, together with those of the natural and social sciences fields. These individuals are adept in the art of learning, and can be made thoroughbreds in the petroleum industry if they are afforded the opportunity of internship and post graduate studies in petroleum-related fields overseas – compliments of these petroleum companies. This process of grooming would take just as much time as it would to develop a petroleum well, or even less.
Equally important is the need for many of these world-renowned explorationists which are recruited by the petroleum companies to have locals in an understudy capacity rather than leave with all the knowledge whenever they so desire, since as the great abolitionist Wendell Phillips said “Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; for the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment”.
Far too long we have let numerous multinational corporations bring their expatriates like a thief in the night to pilfer our resources under the guise that professionals are not locally available, and at the end of decades in operation, we are still left with a situation where professionals are not locally available.

Robert A. Bostwick

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