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Dec 21, 2018 News
More than 400 teachers will shortly be plugged into the public education system having been a part of the 84th Graduation Exercise of the Cyril Potter College of Education [CPCE], which was convened at the National Cultural Centre yesterday.
The graduating batch of 418 included: 76 are Early Childhood trained, 115 are Primary trained, 223 are Secondary trained and four trained to teach in Post-Secondary institutions.
According to CPCE Principal, Ms. Viola Rowe, 13 graduates passed with distinction, 403 with credit and two achieved passes. The Overall Best Graduating student is Ms. Annamarie Isserdeen Samaroo of the Region Three, Vreed-en-Hoop Centre. She received the Presidential Award of Excellence and the Prime Minister’s Prize.
One major highlight of this graduating class is that five students have graduated with an Associate Degree in Information Technology.
Rowe expressed her utmost confidence in the graduates as she assured those in attendance that the institution has strictly adhered to the entry criteria for each programme.
The programmes from which students graduated are the two-year Associate Degree programme, the three-year Trained Teachers’ Certificate programme for the Hinterland and Riverine Centres and the one-year Associate Degree in Education programme.
In her Principal’s report, Rowe said that during the current reporting period [2017 – 2018], another location [the North Pakaraimas, Region Eight] would have been exposed to Teacher Education and Training. This, she said, was achieved with the resuscitation of the Paramakatoi Centre. Further, she disclosed that it was projected that the College would design and implement an effective system of monitoring and evaluation, which would include a strategy of the use of the staff appraisal instrument in all satellite centres.
“This approach allows for gaps, limitations and strengths to be identified across centres,” Rowe explained. She said too that the results would be used to inform the type and nature of development activities necessary at the individual centre and institution.
According to Rowe, this system was introduced in the reporting period in all satellite centres on the coast.
Delivering the feature address at the graduation ceremony was Prime Minister and First Vice-President, Moses Nagamootoo. He told the graduates that they are graduating at a very exciting time in their life, when Guyana is transitioning into a higher and richer society.
As such, he said that greater opportunities will be available. Moreover, he urged them to continue to develop and to quantify their learning adding, “The world, the horizon is unlimited for you to develop but Cyril Potter [College of Education] is the beginning and it has been an excellent foundation for you to go out there with confidence.”
He encouraged the teachers to be exemplary in their profession and to embrace the code of conduct that governs the noble professions as it relates to decorum and behaviour around students, since those under their charge will seek to emulate their elders.
Speaking on behalf of the Minister of Education, Nicolette Henry, was Director of the National Centre for Educational Resource Development [NCERD], Ms. Jennifer Cumberbatch.
In her presentation, she said that it is heart-warming to witness the strengthening of the pillar of education and to welcome the new cohorts of teachers graduating from the CPCE.
She said, “With your new qualifications, you will be equipped to take your place as grade one, class one teachers of the new generation of Guyanese youth.”
Cumberbatch said that government is committed to changing the educational landscape of Guyana and that the CPCE is a fundamental part of that change.
“With increased investments and improvements to the infrastructure, curriculum and courses, the priority is to provide modern facilities with new equipment, enhanced training and review courses, so as to cater for our 21st century needs.”
Adding to the highlights mentioned by the Principal, Ms. Cumberbatch said that several meaningful improvements were made at the college. These improvements include: procurement of fumes cupboards, increased water supply to dormitories, provision of meals to non-resident students and the resuscitation of the Teachers’ Upgrading Programme in Region Eight.
Teachers for the upgrading programme were drawn from 18 villages in Region Eight, sub-region one. These include: Paramakatoi, Chiung Mouth, Bamboo Creek, Chenapau, Itabac, Kaibarupai, Kurukubaru, Kanapang, Kopinang, Kamana, Monkey Mountain, Waipa, Tuseneng, Kato and Karisparu, Maikwak, Taruka.
During the graduation exercise, a tribute was given to the late Principal Olive Lyken who was the first female principal of the college. She served from 1974 to 1979. The tribute was given by Sergeant First Class [Retired] Albert J. Bentick, BMus. of the United States Army. He had attended the institution when Lyken served as Principal.
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