Latest update March 31st, 2026 12:01 AM
Over 1300 graduate from CPCE
(Kaieteur News) – Some 1,345 students of the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE) graduated as trained teachers on Friday at the Providence National Stadium.
The ceremony marked the 92nd exercise of the college where a total of 1,456 registrations were made for the programme this year.
A section of the CPCE’s graduating class of 2025.
Minister of Education, Sonia Parag, delivering the feature address, encouraged the graduating batch to exercise patience and compassion while they execute their duty of imparting knowledge to students. The minister acknowledged the usual mental and social trials accompanying many students of the institution over a two-year period. She urged them to reflect on their challenges and bask in the success of reaching this point.
Minister of Education, Sonia Parag.
“You would have gone through a journey that you have had obstacles, that you have had challenges, and yet you are sitting here on today’s date, and we are celebrating you and the fact that you have made it to the finish line after that journey,” the Minister Parag.
The minister, underscored President Irfaan Ali’s vision of seeing 100 per cent trained teachers across the country. She noted that the education system is progressing in that direction. Even as the students were also urged to upgrade their learning, the minister applauded their success through CPCE as a major upgrade.
“I am pleased to announce, on behalf of the president and the Ministry of Education that your upgrade will be from the date from the 1st of October, 2025,” the minister announced to much applause.
In 2020, 509 trainee teachers graduated from the college. Another 845 graduated in 2021, while 2022 saw a heavy decline to 46. The following year saw a major rebound with 1,837 graduates. For 2024, 1501 students successfully completed studies. This year’s batch, has taken the number to 6,083 teachers trained from 2020. The education minister disclosed that there are 68% trained teachers in the education system. The new batch was challenged to reflect their training in their classrooms.
“It is up to you and the results you will see in your students, that you will know that the training that you have received in all of these years has borne fruits,” the minister stated.
The minister announced that Geography, Chemistry, Physics, History, French, Portuguese, and Health and Family Life Education are specialised subjects to secondary trainees. Guidance and counselling officers will also benefit from a one-year training programme, while parents of special needs children will have a six-week training programme.
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