Guyana’s education sector will receive a much needed boost as more than 1,500 trained teachers are set to graduate from the Cyril Potter College of Education (CPCE), reflecting the government’s commitment to have 100 per cent of Guyana’s teachers fully trained by 2025.
According to a release from the Department of Public Information (DPI) on Friday, this announcement was made on Wednesday by Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand during the commissioning of a new block at the West Demerara Secondary School in Region Three.
“That means that we have more teachers in the system. [We have] smaller classes and more expertise. But it also means that we have a higher quality of teachers in the system…We’ll still have to do continuous training,” the minister stated.
The release noted that in November 2023, a total of 1,796 teachers graduated from the CPCE in various disciplines, marking the largest cohort of teachers ever to graduate in the country.
