Highly motivated teachers key to drive education sector – Education Minister

Dr. Rupert Roopnarine - Minister of Education.Georgetown:  Newly appointed Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine said that the key element to pushing the education sector forward is to ensure that there are highly motivated teachers in the classrooms.

 During an invited comment, following the swearing-in of several A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Ministers of Government, on Wednesday, at the Ministry of the Presidency, Dr. Roopnarine noted that while the task is a huge one, he is prepared to push the sector to greater heights in keeping with President David Granger’s strategy to achieve Universal Literacy, ensuring that every child, regardless of race or background receive quality education.

 Dr Roopnaraine emphasised that “it’s going to be a massive task… because you know from nursery to university needs fixing…”

Meanwhile, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge  said that having engaged the managers of the ministry, his first move will be to fashion a programme for this very vital institution.

“From a distance, I get the impression that we need to place some special attention to the institution itself, the skills that are there, those that need to be developed, the institutes that were established and seem to have fallen into abeyance,” Greenidge explained. 

In keeping with the president’s wish for a greater focus on “Economic Diplomacy” he said that the ministry will remain and retain as a primary priority, the issue of defending Guyana’s borders and developing of more sustainable and warm relations with the country’s neighbours.