Universal secondary education is expected to be a reality in Guyana in another three years according to Chief Education Officer (CEdO) Olato Sam, who however admitted that the Ministry of Education would at no time be able to say that every child was enrolled in a secondary school owing to what he described as the country’s “geographical reality.”
“It is our hope that in the next two years…worst case scenario three years, we would get there [universal secondary education],” Sam told the Sunday Stabroek in an exclusive interview recently.
But he emphasised that in some of the hinterland areas there are what he described as some social realities that work against children being in