The University of Guyana (UG) yesterday announced that it was seeking $5.2b from the government for financial year 2017 and it also unveiled a raft of administrative changes.
In 2016, UG was allocated $3.2b plus a subvention of $500m so the 2017 request represents a major increase.
In a press release last night, UG said that at a meeting held on Monday at the Turkeyen Campus, the Finance and General Purpose Committee (F&GPC) approved a proposal by Vice-Chancellor Professor Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith to radically restructure the university’s leadership.
In alluding to the 2013 Hamilton Consultant Report, which called for “the university to undergo a major restructuring…to make it a high performance institution”, Griffith, who is in his first three months at the university said, “I am of the strong view that greater levels of effectiveness and efficiency can only be achieved through the immediate reorganisation of the administration of the university through realignment of functions and roles.”