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Sep 14, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
The Minister of Education recently tacitly admitted, while confirming our worst fears, that the state of education in Guyana is way beyond critical or being in desperate straits.
We thank and commend her for this candid disclosure.
Perhaps it is time for all political parties to agree that there are certain aspects of our national development which are too critical to Guyana’s future to have them subject to political competition.
Education is one of them as are health and security.
My humble proposal is that education be left to a team of experts in the field to develop a fifteen year plan for Education in Guyana.
This panel of only experts ( no politicians) will be given a specified time within which to develop the plan with agreed long term goals in education.
These goals must be beyond mere literacy but should envision a new Guyana, bi lingual and technologically competitive.
The plan will be endorsed by all the parliamentary parties who will sign a public declaration that they will not make education the subject of political competition or election campaigns.
The political parties should further agree that whoever occupies the seat of Minister of Education in any Government, should always be an appropriately qualified technocrat.
The recommendations and modifications to the plan can be submitted to the panel from time to time for review and modification.
C.A. Nigel Hughes.
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
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