Opposition Member of Parliament, Coretta McDonald yesterday charged that the University of Guyana (UG) is under attack, pointing out that both the institution and the GOAL online programme are expected to receive similar funding in the 2024 budget.
As the budget debate got underway in the National Assembly, she pointed out that $4.1 billion has been budgeted to support the operations of the University of Guyana while $4 billion has been allocated to support the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) programme. Critics have argued that that money could be better spent on Guyana’s primary source of tertiary education.
According to McDonald, the 2024 budget has nothing to transform the lives of teachers or change their “sad realities.” She said, “Education is in trouble” adding that it is a critical sector where there has been gloating over quality and not quantity.