GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—Sixty-one years after its institution, the College of Guyana (UG) acquired its formal accreditation on Monday after fulfilling 16.5 of the 17 requirements required.
The accreditation undertaken by an exterior committee beneath the chairmanship of the previous govt director of the Nationwide Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr. Michael Bradshaw, now paves the way in which for the tertiary establishment’s switch of credit to be simply acknowledged by different universities within the Caribbean.
The opposite committee representatives had been from Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica.
“I need the world to know that this accreditation was not an incestuous method the place individuals, proper from inside Guyana, got here and put a stamp of approval. These individuals had been exterior to this nation,” stated Govt Director of Guyana’s Nationwide Accreditation Council (NAC), Dr Marcel Hutson, including that the accreditation is legitimate for 5 years.
Hutson and the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the College of Guyana, Professor Emmanuel Cummings, stated UG’s accreditation now positions that establishment throughout the context of the Caribbean Group’s Treaty of Chaguaramas.
“In case your establishment is unaccredited, they won’t be accepted as a switch scholar. They can’t include their credit. Now that the College of Guyana will obtain institutional accreditation, credit from the recipient will be transferable to different regional establishments as a part of the revised Treaty of Chaguaramas,” Cummings stated.
The Vice-Chancellor defined that UG didn’t obtain the 17 requirements because of the 1970 Mission Assertion not aligning with present realities, so the brand new UG Council must make the mandatory adjustments. “The evaluators thought that the college was doing way more than its current mission assertion,” she stated.
Hutson singled out the contribution of UG’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Paloma Mohammed-Martin, who stated the evaluation workforce performed an intensive job.
“It’s a complete college train. These folks don’t come right here and communicate solely to us. They communicate to college students, they communicate to purchasers, they communicate, and so they dig up the whole lot. They dig it up if that is what you say you’re doing. They are saying, Deliver the minutes. Deliver the Deliver, carry, carry the information. They go and discuss to the folks. In the event you name someone’s identify, they verify these folks,” Dr Mohammed stated.
She stated, “very quietly,” over the previous 4 or 5 years, UG has been climbing the worldwide rankings, and the intention is to get into the highest international 200 over the following 4 to 5 years.
“That’s the place we must be since you can not say that you simply’re a world-class nation with no world-class college, and we do certainly ship and stand on requirements.
“No one who is aware of this college administration is aware of we don’t play. We settle for our issues, and we repair them,” she stated.
