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New school year; still awaiting Criminal Law grades from 2024
Dear Editor,
I write anonymously, but on behalf of myself and the more than one hundred students who entered the Bachelor of Laws programme at the University of Guyana in 2024. We all did so with high expectations — not only for the exciting academic experience, but also for the quality of service we would receive as part of this esteemed programme.
It is, therefore, with deep frustration that I raise the matter of the slothful delay in the release of our final examination grades for the Criminal Law course — both Criminal Law I and Criminal Law II — from our first year of study, in 2024.
Exhaustive measures have been taken by our elected class representatives, as well as by individual students, to inquire into the status of these grades. For months, we were repeatedly told that the grades were “not yet ready” or “next week”.
When lecturers finally submitted all grades to the Head of Department, we were told, sometime after, that some grades were unaccounted for; hence, they could not yet release them.
Editor, this situation is not without precedent. Readers may recall that in January 2025, another law student at this very institution expressed frustration in a public letter regarding overdue grades from the prior academic year. The university responded, at the time, by apologising to that student and promising that the outstanding grade would be issued the following week of January 30, 2025. I remain uncertain whether that promise was ever fulfilled.
What was more striking about that response, however, was that the university had sought to minimise the student’s concerns by devoting six paragraphs to highlighting the remarkable achievements of past law graduates.. That tactic may have been intended to reassure readers of the institution’s long-standing reputation for excellence, even in the face of administrative shortcomings. While no one disputes the accomplishments of UG’s law alumni, such diversions
do little to address the lived reality of current students who are left in limbo, awaiting the results of their hard work.
The entire Year Two LLB cohort now awaits the release of our Criminal Law I and II results, hopeful that they will be delivered before we march upon 2026. We believe that timely and transparent communication from the university on this matter would not only ease our frustrations but also reinforce the confidence that students, parents, and the wider public place in this institution. Until such time, we continue to wait, and wait, and wait.
Respectfully,
Another Law Student
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