UG to open a new school

Feb 24, 2017 News

Vice Chancellor wants to raise tuition
Talks of tuition increase and a new campus being built were among things discussed on Wednesday last as the University of Guyana concluded the first phase of a feasibility study on the establishment of a School of Entrepreneur and Business Innovation (SEBI).
The forum was hosted at the Herdmanston Lodge.
The small consultation which was chaired by Captain Gerry Gouevia, CEO of Roraima Airways, featured a 14-member team. Other dignitaries were Dr Edward Davis, Dean, of Business, Atlanta University; Dr Leyland Lucas, professor of business, Morgan State university; and Dr Patrick Liverpool , Vice President of Academic Affairs, university of Maryland.
According to Prof Ivelaw Griffith, Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana, partly because of many circumstances at the University of Guyana there is no room at the university to grow so we would be looking to establish a new campus. It would be in Georgetown and if all goes well we would be making the announcement right after the council meets.
“It’s going to be an opportunity for us to find a place that is amenable to doing some of the things that we cannot do right now at Turkeyen,” the Chancellor said.
He added that they don’t know how much SEBI will cost, but what they do know is that it won’t be cheap and they can’t expect the government only pay for it. And is not only (SEBI) that will be moving in this direction, we got to find ways to expand those practical opportunities to people in courses that have those practical opportunities.
“It means that there is an additional cost to those activities that’s why I will be taking a proposal to the university council on March 30, about tuition, I don’t know how much yet but I want to let people know that this notion of expecting it to be cheap or free is not commensurate with quality and we want to build a quality university,” the Chancellor said.
According to Dr Davis, if you establish the usual traditional School of Business what you are typically doing is providing workers. What this School of Business wants to do is provide entrepreneur and entrepreneurial thinkers.

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