Over 2,200 graduands from 50 disciplines are expected to walk the virtual graduation stage as Guyana’s premier tertiary educational institution, The University of Guyana, hosts its second series of online graduation events.  

This is the 55th Convocation for the Turkeyen Campus and the 20th for the Berbice Campus.

The graduations will be hosted over two weekends from Friday, February 4, 2022, to Saturday, February 12, 2022.  

The University of Guyana, on Wednesday, December 1, 2021, inked a Memorandum  of Understanding (MoU) with ChildLink – a Non-Governmental Organisation, under  a project funded by the European Union (EU). This agreement would see the  University developing two programmes aimed at strengthening the capacity of  humanitarians and social workers with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to  effectively and efficiently manage migrant and other emergencies impacting  communities in Guyana.  

You are invited to a discussion forum titled, ‘European Union and Caribbean/Latin America Relations from A-Z’ on Wednesday, 15 December 2021, at 15:00 hrs. via Zoom Webinar.

Kindly pre-register by clicking the link here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pO7D0Pq5QlmRDMM0Z7RYzQ

“You Are the Bedrock of This Institution” - UG’s Vice-Chancellor Tells  Long Service Employees 

Guyana’s apex national University, the University of Guyana, on Friday, November 19,  recognised and honoured fifty-nine (59) employees for their dedicated and selfless  service to the institution, and by extension the country, for as many as forty (40) years. 

New Ambassador from China to Guyana Her Excellency Ambassador H.E.

The Office of the Vice-Chancellor, XI invites you to ‘Whale Rider Film Screen and Discussion’ on Thursday, December 9, 2021, at 19:00 hrs. via Zoom.

Kindly pre-register for this event by clicking here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_53-vu24hQ3mPEMkr-dh0Rg

Twenty-eight (28) children of staff members of the University of Guyana who sat the  2021 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) and will now move on to high school in  Guyana.  

During a simple ceremony following its Long Service Awards hosted at the George  Walcott Lecture Theatre at the University’s Turkeyen, Campus, the children,  accompanied by their parents, were presented with their cheques by members of the  University’s Senior Management Team (SMT).  

The University of Guyana on Wednesday, November 24, 2021, was gifted two million, three hundred and twenty-two thousand, six hundred and eighty dollars ($2, 322,680)  from the Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited to support the upgrade of the electricals in  its 35-year-old Education Lecture Theatre. Specifically, the funds will purchase and  pay for the installation of new electrical fixtures for the “ELT” as it is fondly called by  staff, students and alumni.