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Probe into OLPT payment claims will soon commence

Oct 07, 2015 News

The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) headed by President Mark Lyte will soon launch a probe into the claim of teachers having to pay $40,000 to receive laptops promised to them by the government.
The “One laptop for teacher” programme, implemented by the APNU+AFC administration recently made headlines at a local media house purporting that payments are being solicited from teachers receiving the laptops.
Chief Education Officer Olato Sam recently stated that teachers who reported the issue may have confused the recently introduced OLPT programme with the G-Tech Programme.
The G-tech program implemented under the previous administration subsidized laptops for graduating teachers from the Associate Degree Education Programme at the Cyril Potter College of Education. Whereas, laptops offered through the OLPT programme will be provided to teachers across the nation free of cost.
Sam, however, maintained that the allegations were false and that uncertainties over the programmes will be addressed by the Ministry of Education.
The programme to provide laptops to the teachers has already been established and some teachers have already received their laptop. The trainees of CPCE are amongst the first recipients of the laptops in question. This initiative will build on the recently established “Guyana Improving Teacher Education Project” of 2014, which saw the students and teachers along with lecturers of Cyril Potter College of Education receiving laptops.

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