Emphasising that Guyana’s tertiary education system needs to be reformed, Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Professor Nigel Harris has urged that a “national conversation” on education be started and promised to assist if asked.
“I think this is a moment, right now… for a national conversation on tertiary education, perhaps on education itself,” Harris told attendees at the Rotary Club of Georgetown’s World Understanding Dinner, which was held at the Pegasus Hotel on Friday night.
Harris pointed out that while the conversation was needed to gain insight into the problem from the entire populace so that