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A plug for the country’s brain drain may perhaps be in its formative stages as the University of Guyana steps up to the bat under Vice Chancellor,Mike Gartner Jersey, Professor Lawrence Carrington.The question of whether any part of the University’s recently revealed Strategic Plan addresses the pervasive issue of almost 80 percent graduate migration was posed to the current Vice Chancellor of the University in a recently televised interview.Professor Carrington said that this was not just the job of the University but an issue that needed to be addressed holistically at all levels.“The burden does not just lie on the providers of higher education; it needs to be addressed at a national level,Chris Chelios Jersey,” said Carrington. And those migrating,Brett Hull Jersey, according to Carrington,Pierre Turgeon Jersey, are not only the graduates,Pavol Demitra Jersey, but skilled and trained persons at all levels of education.He went on to say that what the University does have in its power to do is to ensure that students are grounded in their orientation towards national need and that they recognize a higher than normal duty to their country.Professor Carrington said that the University is making an effort to increase its output in certain areas. The intent is to work towards graduating larger numbers of students in Science and Technology related fields. But to increase production naturally means there must be a corresponding increase in supplies.According to Carrington,Connor Hellebuyck Team North America Jersey, increasing the numbers of those being trained means increasing the resources available to the University. He said that there needed to be an increase in space and staffing which is woefully inadequate at present or substantial improvements to the training mechanisms.The University’s Strategic Plan offers a number of initiatives for increasing the number of people being trained through their programmes.There are plans in the works to increase the University’s capacity for distance delivery which Professor Carrington addressed in his interview. He noted that in the interests of ensuring that students at the remote campus location had the same opportunities as those in Georgetown the University was looking to install multimedia systems within the classrooms at those campuses to allow for greater interaction between the two campuses.There are also indications that online programmes will soon be available through the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education (IDCE). These will be offered at centers outside of the usual campus locations to allow for greater ease of access.The revised strategic plan looks at the installation of flexible needs driven programmes that will be available outside of the main campus.These are an effort at ensuring that courses of greater earning potential will be offered to those who need it most.And the most important complement of these programmes will be the implementation of incentive driven programmes for staff to engage in the delivery of distance and on-line programmes. |
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