Georgetown: Students, Teachers, Headteacher, and Administrative staff of Guyana’s leading education institution, Queens College (QC) will be the beneficiaries of several forthcoming enhancements. The enhancements are expected to significantly modify the overall function, appearance and learning environment of the school.
This week the executive body of the Parent Teacher Association, Board of Governors, Head Teacher, and Administrative Department of Queens College met with the Minister of Education, Hon. Priya Manickchand to discuss same.
At the meeting, QC representatives raised a number of issues. Among the list of issues mentioned were the insufficient numbers of teachers and furniture for staff, labs and classrooms. The Minister, Hon. Priya Manickchand committed to addressing these concerns fully and has also committed to, as far as possible, make every effort to ensure that the school has the requisite number of teachers and furnishings needed. The Minister however, has asked the school in collaboration with the PTA to compile a comprehensive list of vacancies and furnishings needed there.
Minister Manickchand has also committed to addressing as far as resources would allow, several other requests made by the school, which included the following:
· Repairs and painting to the buildings
· Improved plumbing to certain buildings
· Electrical works
· Restoration to the school’s play field
· Expansion works to include cafeteria and rooms that will be used for various events and club meetings.
Queens College is one of many schools listed for rehabilitation works and overall enhancement interventions this year as the Ministry continues to improve the delivery of education across the country. The meeting is a fulfillment of the Ministry’s promise that any rehabilitation works will see the community being informed of the scope of the works with the view to having quality outputs.
Queens College is known to produce some of Guyana’s and the Region’s best scientists, lawyers, engineers, teachers, economists and persons in other professions. Recently, three students from the school, Cecil Cox who topped the Caribbean in the Sciences in 2013, Benedict Sukra, and Lawrence Faria were accepted into the Region’s elite Program for Innovation in Science and Engineering (SPISE) at the University of the West Indies. SPISE is a 4-week residential summer program for Caribbean high-school students who are gifted in science and engineering. In the program students are immersed in university-level calculus, physics, biochemistry, entrepreneurship, Mandarin, one-Caribbean studies, and hands-on projects in robotics and electronics and computer programming.
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