President Granger to meet with UGSS

Apr 07, 2016 News

President David Granger is expected to have a sit down with the President of the University of Guyana Students Society (UGSS) and a small group from the association next week, after scores of students staged a protest on Monday and accused the government of neglecting their concerns.
According to a press statement from the Ministry of Presidency, the meeting is to discuss the welfare issues raised by students of the University’s Turkeyen Campus. It stated that the logistics are being worked out by the Ministry of Presidency and the UGSS.
The UGSS president Joshua Griffith had criticized the government of playing politics with their education. Griffith led the protest that saw students remonstrating for an accredited medical school and improved facilities on the campus’s Natural Sciences Faculty.
“UG students matter…No students, no pay slips!” “Respect our education,” “UG raise your standard” and “After 50 years no standard and increased fees?” were some of the statements shouted by the students in front of the university’s administration building.
Criticizing the poor services offered at the local university, students had bashed the government for not listening to them and rendering the assistance it promised when it gained office. The students complained that they did not contend when their facility fees were raised last year because they knew that “better” was needed, but now for some reason or the other facilities remain lacking.
Griffith had said that if the president did not meet with them to address the issues the issues raised then they will go to him, in front of his office with placards. The second protest was scheduled for yesterday, outside of the Ministry of Presidency compound. But the students’ society was contacted before it could have got underway and told to be ready for the meeting.
Griffith told Kaieteur News yesterday that he was appreciative that they would be engaging with the president. He said over the course of this week, the society will meet with students and gather their concerns and present it to Granger.
“We will take full opportunity of this meeting,” he said, adding that they are open to collaboration and friendly discourse.
Last year the local medical school lost its accreditation from the Caribbean Accreditation Authority for Education in Medicine and other Health Professions (CAAM-HP). Efforts to re-accredit it are under way after a businessman pledged some $200M to assist in the erection of a building to be used for student instruction.
The UGMS had lost the provisional accreditation it had been granted the university failed to submit its annual report in 2015.
The school was first granted provisional accreditation in 2008 then again in 2013 after a site visit. The school was required to submit annual progress reports and prepare for a limited survey visit from CAAM-HP as conditions for the retaining and likely improvement of its accredited status.
The outdated nature of the school’s curriculum, the functioning of an MoU between the Ministry of Public Health, UGMS, and the GPHC, along with an absence of facilities to support the medical programmes at GPHC and UGMS were factors raised that might have affected the school being accredited.

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