School curriculum to go digital from September

Students across Guyana will have access to the country’s full school curriculum online from September, as the Ministry of Education rolls out the next phase of the Guyana Digital School initiative aimed at improving access to quality education.
The announcement was made by Education Minister Sonia Parag on Friday last during the release of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) results. The Guyana Digital School is a national online learning platform launched by the Ministry of Education. It provides free access to Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC)-aligned lessons, artificial intelligence (AI) tutoring, virtual classrooms, and digital textbooks for students in Grades 10 and 11 across the Caribbean. The platform is built to supplement traditional classrooms and democratise access to education, reaching thousands of students across all regions of Guyana and other CARICOM nations. “And this September, through the Guyana Digital School, we will take another significant step forward by making the complete primary and secondary curriculum available online. The Guyana Digital School was launched in December of 2025 by no other than His Excellency. It is a school that will have all of the curriculum and content from Grades One to Eleven, and will serve as a reinforcement to what is being taught in the classroom, free of cost to every single child in Guyana,” she said. On the note of new interventions being made, she noted that the Government has also expanded access to textbooks, constructed new schools, and upgraded existing educational facilities to improve learning conditions.

“We are building more schools. And I am proud to say that while we have built so many schools over the last five years, closing gaps where there were gaps in access to these schools, or education on the whole, in the hinterland and rural communities.”

Literacy camps
Meanwhile, turning her attention to Mathematics, the Education Minister said the challenges students face are not rooted in the equations themselves, but rather in their level of comprehension. “Indeed, many of the challenges in Mathematics, for example, have nothing to do with the numbers, but with the reading and comprehension of the concepts. This is why we expanded literacy and numeracy camps across the country, providing additional support not only for students, but also for parents, so they could better assist their children at home.” She added that literacy camps have also been introduced in communities to support parents who want to help their children improve academically. “We have started literacy camps in communities to assist parents who want to help their children to do well academically,” Parag said. The Minister also highlighted the importance of strengthening teacher training, noting that the quality of educators remains central to the success of the education system. “We strengthened teacher training and will continue to significantly revamp the teacher training programme because it is my unwavering belief that no education system can rise above the quality of its teachers.” She said the Ministry has also made mock examinations more purposeful by using them to identify learning gaps and provide targeted interventions before the final examination, while increasing access to textbooks.