After 60 years of providing tertiary education to the citizens of Guyana, the University of Guyana has finally obtained national accreditation from the National Accreditation Council of Guyana (NAC).
UG Vice Chancellor, Dr Paloma Mohamed Martin revealed this information during the Annual Business Meeting of the UG Council on Thursday. The faculty accreditation was obtained July last.
The process, according to Mohamed Martin, was no easy one, given that the founding of the university predates both the founding of the State of Guyana and the NAC by approximately 30 years.
The Vice Chancellor shared that they had to go back into old files to account for the work they have done.
“It was no easy task because… the founding of UG predates the founding of the State of Guyana and predates the founding of the National Accreditation Council by about thirty years or so… it was a huge voluminous presentation we had to give them, bigger than any other institution in this country,” she added.
Added to that, the VC also highlighted some of the other achievements that the University has accomplished this year while boasting that the institution was now ranked as the fifth university in the world to cater to students who want to pursue Environmental Studies.
The University also has completed its very first fully online student government election. However, UG aspires to improve its services; in its 2040 blueprint, the one graduate per household initiative and the center of excellence for research on Guyana and the Region’s grand challenges are among the highlights.
The one graduate per household initiative aims to have at least one university graduate in every family across the country.
