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Education Ministry in search of CEO
…as Olato Sam’s contract ends
The position of Chief Education Officer (CEO) is expected to be advertised shortly with the hope of finding a suitably qualified candidate by the end of September 2016.
Chief Education
Officer, Olato Sam
This is according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Education which confirmed that CEO, Mr. Olato Sam, with immediate effect, will no longer be functioning in the said capacity as his contract with the Ministry has ended.
According to the Ministry’s statement, Mr. Sam has served in the sector with distinction and zeal for the past eight years, five of which he served as CEO.
“The Ministry wishes to thank Mr. Sam for his contributions to the Education Sector in Guyana and extends best wishes to him for all future endeavours,” the statement added.
Sam, a former student of Queen’s College, attended Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in a special major Sociology, Anthropology and Education and with a Pennsylvania Teachers Certificate in the area of Social Studies.
He taught Social Studies and English Literature at Walton High School and then became the Coordinator of the Alternative Education Programme for the education district at MS 144.
Sam, according to information detailed on the Ministry’s website, continued his studies at New York University and earned a Masters Degree in International Education with a concentration on Latin America and the Caribbean.
He subsequently returned to Guyana as the Director of the New Millennium Institute and introduced the phonetic-based literacy instructional programme through the Reading for All Learners Programme (RALP), currently being used in the school system nationwide.
Sam later became a lecturer in the School of Education and Humanities, the Departments of Foundations and Education Management and Curriculum and Instruction.
In June 2006, he became the Head of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction and served in that capacity for one year, and in 2007 he moved to the Ministry of Education as the Technical Adviser to the then Minister of Education, Shaik Baksh.
During that period he also served as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) and was instrumental in introducing a number of education initiatives including designing and structuring the Guyana Teacher Education Improvement Project being funded by the World Bank.
In January 2011, Mr. Olato Sam was appointed the Chief Education Officer.
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If Olato is desirous to continue working as the CEO of the Ministry of Education,is he not qualified enough to do so?or are there other matters the public is not aware of,that have caused him to be relieved of his duties.It is understood,that his alleged contract will soon come to an end,but others had extensions of contracts,especially if they are competent workers.