Over seven decades, the Government Technical Institute (GTI) has all too frequently, missed out on both the recognition and the incremental enhancements that it has merited. The validity of this assertion is reflected in what, unquestionably, is the direction in which Guyana is moving.
Technical and vocational education fit neatly into the range of skills which, going forward, are required to drive what is now widely seen as an ‘oil and gas economy’. Perhaps more significant is the fact that the institution has, over the years, been calibrated to meet a wide range of training needs that take on board students who, at that particular stage of their lives, are not destined for a university campus… at least not at that stage of their careers.