A conference of local and diaspora stakeholders of the University of Guyana (UG) has called on the government to provide emergency funding to the institution to reverse its “imminent collapse”.
Held over three days, the conference, the initiative of new UG Vice-Chancellor Ivelaw Griffith, produced a resolution signed by 70 stakeholders based here and overseas calling for the urgent financing. The call will likely test the Granger administration’s declaration of intent to aid the university particularly since its two budgets thus far have not provided larger than normal subventions.
Contending that the university had been woefully underfunded in the part, the recital to the