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UNACCEPTABLE THINGS AT THE GUYANA SCHOOL OF AGRICULTURE
Dear Editor;
I would just like to inform that I have successfully graduated from the Guyana School of Agriculture and I’m extremely happy to be out of that hell hole. Now I can live my life but my concern would be for the new students that will be entering the institution. Would they be entering under the same management or would there be new management? Of course that’s for the Minister of Agriculture to answer but I’ll be eagerly awaiting his answer.
As a former student I can safely say if the current management remains in place it will be hell for the new students since all that takes place is micro management. The rubberstamp administration should get a special course on management. Don’t know if it will help much but someone can at least try with them and expect some miracle. Some of the lecturers also need to learn to lecture.
The administration is constantly looking into students having relationships and two officials are feeding them with information. These people already have so much work to do during the day now they are put in a position to see who is trying to get into relationships with whom. All of that is going on and the administration is failing to look at students’ welfare. We had no proper beds, we had no proper internet service. The two computers in the library which the two hundred of us had to use especially when we had printing to do are out of date and need replacing.
The printer is another story to talk about. More is definitely needed. Majority of the books in the library are outdated, in fact, many are there since relatives of mine were there over thirty years ago, yes thirty years ago. We have had to deal with so much water problems, NAREI’s well breaking down and having problems with water to bathe, don’t know why they don’t consult the Government regarding setting up a well since it’s a Government agency and has need for a lot of water on a continuous basis. The well will solve the problem they are getting with water especially in the dry season. Imagine students after having all that trouble having to fetch water from drains to water hundreds of roots of plants.
Why can’t this institution set up proper and I repeat proper irrigation systems?
Mr. Editor, I want to suggest that the authorities pay attention to these things so that the students that graduate from the Guyana School of Agriculture come out as students that are informed and also have some practical experience with up to date techniques in Agriculture instead of the primitive or almost primitive methods that were being taught to us.
Mr. Editor, some may feel because I’m out of the institution I will try to bring it down but all I’m hoping for is improvements in what is being offered and also an improvement in the facilities available so that the students can be properly trained. It would be remiss of me not to mention that these improvements cannot occur with the current management. I just have to be frank, the current management lacks vision. It seems as the only thing they see is which next student to suspend or expel or which staff to fire. Over my stint there, I cannot count the amount of students that have been suspended or expelled but mostly suspended for frivolous matters. Oh yes, they micro manage. Several staff members have also come up on the rough side of the stick.
Mr. Editor, in my previous letter I also mentioned about the situation at the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (GLDA) and the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) where several staff members were sent home because of them mistreating others and also being involved in corruption. They should be probably reinstated since there is the presence of both of these things at the Guyana School of Agriculture, of course there is evidence external to GSA to prove it.
Why should this be? I do not support corruption but if some persons were sent home because of that, why when there is evidence against others at the school, they remain in office? The evidence is not directly against the CEO but it is under his watch and he is well aware of some of the information.
The staff members have no representative, the students have no representative, what is the Guyana School of Agriculture turning to? Why is the Granger administration not investigating? Yes they can’t do witch hunting but please, after all these letters and no response one does not have to go to school to recognize that something is wrong and needs fixing.
Amanda B
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