Committee to guide CPCE and UG’s collaboration in the making

Committee to guide CPCE and UG’s collaboration in the making – Education Dean

Jul 14, 2015 News

Even as the University of Guyana (UG) and the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) work towards forging closer collaborations to offer the Associate Degree in Education and Bachelors Degree in Education Programme, plans are apace for the setting up of a strategic committee to help guide the way forward.

Educators examine some of the books recently donated by GITEP to the UG Library.

This is according to Dean of the Faculty of Education and Humanities, Mr. Alim Hosein. “We are forming a small committee which will engage in regular meetings with CPCE probably once per month and we will probably work on a few specific goals and objectives that we can achieve semester by semester or year by year so that tangible things can be done.”
Already the committee members from the University sides have been identified, said Hosein, as he asserted “there is much to look forward to.”
His disclosure was forthcoming at a handing over ceremony on Thursday in the University’s Education Lecture Theatre where books and equipment were presented to the University, compliments of the Guyana Improving Teachers Project (GITEP).
The GITEP programme, which has Mr. Tota Mangar as its Coordinator, has been in existence for a number of years. Its stated objective is to improve the learning achievement of Guyana’s school children by improving the effectiveness and efficiency in the delivery of teacher education. The objective is one that was deemed consistent with the Ministry of Education’s Strategic Plan for 2008-2013 which aims to raise the standard of living in Guyana through improving education in its overall effectiveness.
Based on information out of the Education Ministry the total project cost is US$5.12 million with US$4.2 million being a loan from the World Bank and the remainder from Government and the Commonwealth of Learning and Local Sources.
However, the GITEP programme is swiftly coming to an end. The challenge, therefore, according to Hosein, would be for UG and CPCE to work together in order to show the benefits of the programme in the years ahead.
On Thursday both UG and CPCE were the beneficiaries of a quantity of books and equipment from GITEP which were handed over by Mangar.
At a ceremony at UG, Hosein observed that over the last few years there has been a transition in terms of the modes of learning. He said that internet technologies have transferred many things including the delivery of education.
“We can no longer depend on chalk and talk but you know also that the University is challenged for resources and what we have through the GITEP programme is a very good way of improving our resources,” noted Hosein.
Recently, too, the Education Faculty was the recipient of a computer laboratory and it is set to shortly benefit from a smart classroom.
Among the support from GITEP has been the provision of projectors and digital cameras which, according to Hosein, will be of direct benefit not only in the material sense but should redound to the improvement in the general delivery of education.
But in order to see the desired results he pointed to the need for educators to revamp the delivery and ways of teaching to gradually and probably not so gradually make use and incorporate these technologies into our teachings.
He nevertheless stressed that “we cannot escape the value of books in the hand.” GITEP has provided the UG library with in excess of 50 book titles in a wide range of education disciplines including management, linguistics, technology, guidance and counselling.
“This considerably enhances our resources. So we must be thankful for all of these in helping to move the University unto a different plain of education delivery,” asserted Hosein.

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