 bigger investments in guyana highest learning institution needed vc bigger investments in guyana highest learning institution needed vc bigger investments in guyana highest learning institution needed webmaster mon 2192018 2139 the university of guyana ug is appealing for bigger investments in order to effectively prepare thousands of guyanese for the country s emerging oil and gas o g sector so says the institution s vice chancellor professor ivelaw griffith who this past week lamented the state of affairs as he appealed to the corporate community including oil companies civil society and government for increased investments in the tertiary institution i want to recommend that you embrace the proposition that we have a university of guyana that we are going to have to invest in appropriately we being the society we being the partners at the international level who think who are convinced that this is a worthy journey on which to enjoin professor griffith said the university administrator was at the time addressing the guyana international petroleum exhibition and summit gipex held at the marriott hotel from february 7 to 9 he was speaking to the institution s preparations in order to meet the projected skills demand as a result of the emerging industry and was adamant the university is not going to be able to make the efforts and have the outcomes desired if we don t want to invest investment he proffered needs to come from the government of guyana it needs to come from the industry partners it needs to come from the citizenry  energy investment plan he told the industry executives delegates and government representatives at gipex 2018 in context of ug just sitting there we got to figure out what the investment will be to make these all happen the university currently has a team working on putting together an energy investment plan and a number of industry partners have already begun collaborating with the university he said professor griffith identified schlumberger haliburton bakerhughes a ge company exxonmobil and technipfmc having already employed 10 university graduates the university vice chancellor disclosed too that technipfmc has committed to directly employing from ug 20 more specialized persons by yearend that exxonmobil tier i contractor last year contacted the university to recruit the engineers six mechanical two electrical and two civil engineers each of the contracted university graduates has since been sent to brazil by technipfmc for further training article adapted from  http oilnowgy news biggerinvestmentsguyanahighestlearninginstitutionn  oil gas 