Science and technology provides good future –overseas teachers to be recruited in this field

Georgetown – Government through the Ministry of Education and the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) has been given the go ahead by Cabinet to recruit graduate teachers from overseas mainly to provide tutoring in the areas of Science and Mathematics.

 
According to Dr. Luncheon the recruitment procedure will be somewhat different from the current one which allows foreign teachers to be recruited independently through the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) certificate in the same way as Guyanese do to take up employment in other countries.   
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon explained during a media briefing, that the model of overseas recruitment which is being explored is an earlier model where teachers were primarily recruited from the Indian sub continent to teach in Guyana with the option of taking up permanent residence and becoming Guyanese citizens. 
 
Responding to queries about the method of payment and the number of teachers that will be recruited Dr. Luncheon stated that “the answers to those questions particularly the provocative ones about remuneration were such not to allow Cabinet to withhold its agreement for the Ministry of Education to proceed along this path.”
He added that these concerns were addressed in the context of existing arrangements for overseas recruitment of specialists in other areas that Cabinet had already agreed to, given the need for response to certain shortages in Guyana. 
 
He added that Guyanese have also realised that there is no future without an education and science and technology provides certainty of employment and a good future.