Sted with donation from China
y mission coming out of yesterday’s event was to ensure that the raining of teachers is done at an xceptionally high standard to nable the college to graduate eachers who are capable of providing service of an exceptional quality to the public education ystem.
He said that Guyana looks forward to continued international
ooperation in the education of friendly countries such as the People’s Republic of China, paricularly during the decade of development from 2020 to 2029.
According to the President, during that decade there will be a greater focus on education particularly to satisfy the constitutional equirement of free education from nursery to university.
Minister of Education, Dr Nicolette Henry during her preentation said that she does not doubt that the equipment, conumables and reagents will nhance the science capabilities of CPCE to more effectively disharge its mandate.
She observed that focussing on science is becoming more and more imperative as science is
reating wonders almost every day. “In keeping with this reality, our educational institutions are mandated to upgrade for the beterment of our human resources, kills, capacity building and merging industries,” the Minister noted.
Henry added that education is a strong area of cooperation between the two countries since he Chinese government has coninually provided scholarships and training opportunities to trengthen capacity.
She said that improving the tandard and support systems at CPCE should allow both lecturers and students to have an improved experience. “The benefits of this will gradually be filtered into our school system as the quality of teachers is the most significant school-based determinant of students’ outcome,” the Education Minister stated.
Meanwhile, Jianchun said that it was President Granger’s focus on education that made the gift of science equipment to CPCE a reality. According to the Ambassador, China is more than willing to advance teaching and learning in Guyana and the equipment handed-over to CPCE is an important contribution to the development of the institution and as such, he looks forward to the continued cooperation between the two countries, the release added.