Government is being encouraged to improve the quality of education at its university campuses and capitalise on the advent of technology to offer online courses to those in remote areas and to create job opportunities for the recently graduated university students.
Government urged to create job opportunities for newly-graduated UG students
The encouragement was made by People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee during a news conference on Monday as he was extending congratulations to the 1628 graduates from the University of Guyana (Turkeyen Campus) and the 250 who graduated last weekend at the University of Guyana (Tain Campus).
“This is another remarkable achievement for our country and marks another milestone in our nation’s efforts aimed at national capacity building and institutional strengthening,” he remarked.
Rohee said Government must move to introduce scholarship support for online university education for students from Amerindian communities and implement teleconferencing facilities between the University of Guyana Turkeyen and Tain campuses, allowing for remote access to lectures for students in Berbice as well as Georgetown. He also posited that government must move to provide university level education to the residents on Essequibo Coast with the ultimate view of establishing a university campus there or the provision of online facilities.
The General Secretary added that new and modern libraries for both of the campuses must be placed high on the government’s agenda.
Rohee also noted that with the arrival of another batch of young persons armed with university education, government must ensure it fulfils its campaign promise to create job opportunities.
But he expressed some concerns, given government’s recent posture on the matter of unemployment in the country, that the administration might not fulfil its promise.
“It is the task of government to do as they promised; ‘Create jobs, jobs and more jobs in the shortest time possible’. However, the Granger Administration has failed to do so, and, as if to add insult to injury, has admonished job seekers, telling them that; ‘Employment is not something to be provided by government’ and that they ‘must find their own jobs’,” he stated.
Meanwhile, the General Secretary used the opportunity to denounce the imposition of a graduation fee for potential graduands.
According to him, the fees will result in greater hardship for students who can ill afford it. (Devina Samaroo)
