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Jun 19, 2014 News
Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, will be looking to secure support from her parliamentary counterpart
to allow for the passage of a new Education Bill.
The Bill comes as a strategic move by the Ministry to reform and modernize Guyana’s education sector. Moreover, Minister Manickchand will be presenting the new Bill today in the National Assembly.
This new Education Bill is expected to provide adequate framework for the delivery of high quality, contemporary education, to better develop each student’s potential and maximize their educational achievement.
Some of the key areas of this new Bill, once passed, will repeal the old Education Act and include: rights and responsibilities of students and parents, categories of schools and the stages of education, management of public educational institutions, employment of teachers, curriculum assessment of students, inspection and review of the education system.
According to a statement from the Ministry “This new Bill comes at a most opportune moment in Guyana’s history, especially since the current Education Act utilized in Guyana came into being since 1876 with its last amendments being made sometime in 1976.”
The Government of Guyana in recognizing the misalignment of Guyana’s education legislation with contemporary regional and international education benchmarks, decided since 2005, to set about drafting a new Education Bill that can adequately address the modern education issues and challenges currently experienced by the sector.
This Bill therefore is designed to reflect information gleaned by the Ministry through a number of public consultations held countrywide between the Ministry and a wide cross section of key stakeholders.
Ministry officials are therefore optimistic that it will get the “unrestrained support of the full House in getting this new Education Bill through Parliament and made into Law from which all of Guyana, particularly her children, will benefit.”
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