Education Ministry website recognizes increase in traffic

Georgetown: Since the launch of the Ministry of Education’s new Website, in July of this year, the Ministry has recorded remarkable increase in the number of users.
From July 2014 to date, the Ministry is pleased to report that there have been 35,143 unique visitors to the website. This means that according to the Ministry analysis, 35,143 persons have visited the Ministry’s website at least once during July and September 15, 2014. Although a significant number of users are from Guyana, the Ministry has noted that users from several other countries including China, France, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, Jamaica, Spain, Germany, and Great Britain also frequent the website.
In addition, the Ministry is also pleased to inform that it has recorded Four Million, Nine Hundred and Forty-one Thousand, Eight Hundred and Forty (4,941,840) Hits during the aforementioned period.
The new Website is in line with the Ministry’s efforts to meet the needs of the modern dynamic global environment of which Guyana’s education system is a part. An interactive portal with access to a wide variety of essential online information concerning the local education sector, this new website is designed to be easily utilized by parents, teachers and students of all grades. The Ministry sees the establishment of this new Website as critical to further enhancing public engagement and interaction.
Some of the information on the site ranges from curriculum guides, past test papers, CSEC and CAPE syllabuses, to coloring packets and interactive videos for nursery children, interactive quizzes for primary age children from grades 2-6, tips for parents and teachers as well as a host of education policy documents among other important information.