Georgetown: Education Minister, Dr Rupert Roopnaraine has appointed former Registrar of the University of Guyana (UG) Vincent Alexander as his special adviser on all education matters.
Dr Roopnaraine, related that Alexander’s appointment was made upon his ascension to the office in an effort to focus on policy matters and measures which can improve the delivery of education and ultimately the education sector.
“He is the Minister’s special adviser on everything in the education sector – culture, sports, arts, University of Guyana – everything. He is the Minister’s adviser on everything that is on the Minister’s portfolio,” Roopnaraine said.
He noted that Alexander’s role would now be to provide advice on steps which should be taken, but stressed that he was only part of the entire advisory team. “What I am doing is that I am finding people in the Ministry and I’m trying to connect them to some of my own appointees so that we can create a very large, I hope not too large, manageable advisory team to which I can have reports as they provide. I intend to chair that group,” the Education Minister disclosed.
Alexander will also be looking at the University of Guyana’s ongoing crises and report to the Minister so that a way forward can be plotted.
Alexander was appointed Registrar of UG in 2009. He had joined the academic staff of the University of Guyana in 1988 as a Research Fellow/Lecturer in the Institute of Development Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences. He then served as Dean of the faculty from 1993 to 1994. In 1994, Alexander was appointed the first Deputy Registrar of UG.
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