 vicechancellor and senior management team present inaugural bursaries to children of staff members who sat the 2021 ngsa regardless of final placement and scores says they have persevered under difficult circumstances and must be encouraged vicechancellor and senior management team present inaugural bursaries to children of staff members who sat the 2021 ngsa regardless of final placement and scores says they have persevered under difficult circumstances and must be encouraged andydindial mon 12062021 906 twentyeight 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 university of guyana s vicechancellor xi prof paloma mohamed martin supported from her vicechancellors fund which she has personally seeded soon after becoming vicechancellor in 2020 in sharing the special moment with colleagues in the smt long service awardees the children and their families she congratulated the students and wished them well as they continue their academic journeys we are not considering whether they passed to go to a top school or a low school we are considering the fact that they wrote the examination and passed under very difficult times and we wanted to always consider the equitable distribution of what we can share the vc also thanked the parents of the students whom she said have also made tremendous sacrifices to ensure the children persevered under the most challenging circumstances we also know that the parents from the university were lifting up our ug students and our students who had to graduate while their own child children might have been sometimes struggling the vc expressed the bursaries are intended to be used to purchase school supplies and other items they may need the recipients of the cash vouchers were jaden luke annabelle rambaran gabrella rajcoomar alicia robinson asiyah kalyan jamal moore devon williams melina henry ezekiel hector orldeo hales david thorne claudius singh grandchild nikaya craig dariah halley tahir jalani fraser omari a richards aedan massay melroy pyle zarkha hinds grandchild kalil schroeder grandchild naiara ahiliyia budhram micaiah enoe joseph daniel chazaiah ar bernard elisa keshasamma lee ashanti joseph jaieem cummings and ezwkie marshall those were the children and grandchildren respectively of karen robertsluke library dr pheona mohammed rambaran college of medical sciences jaya rajcommar college of medical sciences omodele robinson college of medical sciences diaram kalyan university of guyana berbice campus ugbc faneea shalim ugbc carol rodney facilities and maintenance department terrence moriah facilities and maintenance department pearly hector facilities and maintenance department chandradai joseph facilities and maintenance department carmichael thorne facilities and maintenance department shamwatti sarwan facilities and maintenance department michelle campbellcraig faculty of education humanities mellissa richmond faculty of education humanities ann phillips faculty of education humanities keisa johnsonrichards faculty of education humanities johnaton massay tactical online services melroy pyle faculty of education and humanities allason forde facilities and maintenance department nelsonia persaudbudhram faculty of social sciences shonell smith enoe faculty of social sciences ruth daniel faculty of natural sciences calvin bernand faculty of natural sciences samuel lee faculty of natural sciences christine bovell pace and savana marshall facilities and maintenance department the names of the children were provided from the faculties through the personnel department congratulations were sent to the children and their parents from the chancellor prof edward greene vicechancellor xi prof paloma mohamed martin deputy vice chancellors prof emanuel cummings academic engagement and dr mellissa ifill institutional advancement and the entire senior management team faculty and staff of the university of guyana it is hoped that this will be an annual award to children of faculty and staff from this year on university of guyana s xi vicechancellor prof paloma mohamed martin in the red dress centre along with ug staff and their children who received the bursaries    ug in brief  the university of guyana is the 58thyear state university of guyana it offers 136 programmes in over 60 disciplines online and facetoface in 8 campuses across guyana with a student population of now 10000 ug has provided education learning and research for over 50000 alumni the mission of the university is to discover generate disseminate and apply knowledge of the highest standard for the service of the community the nation and of all mankind within an atmosphere of academic freedom that allows for free and critical inquiry ug s forwardthinking blueprint 2040 is currently setting the course for the university s future design and institutional response to the changing needs of guyana contact ms krest cummings public relations officer department of events conferences and communications vicechancellor and senior management team present inaugural bursaries to children of staff members who sat the 2021 ngsa regardless of final placement and scores says they have persevered under difficult circumstances and must be encouraged  