About University of Guyana
The University of Guyana, now in its 60th year, was founded in October 1963. “UG” as it is fondly referred to offers 160 plus programmes in over 60 disciplines in online, face-to-face or blended formats. UG delivers in a Guyana-based system across eight campuses. It is the largest, oldest, most advanced, and only state University in Guyana with a student population of over 10,000.
“UG” has provided education, training, and research for over 50,000 alumni over its 60-year history. UG’s national and global impact and footprint are significant. Its graduates have risen to populate the commanding heights of national, regional, and international organisations of repute in over 150 different disciplines. 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 all mankind within an atmosphere of academic freedom, innovation, and universal respect.
UG’s forward-thinking Blueprint 2040 is currently setting the course for the University’s future design and institutional response to the changing needs of Guyana, the region, and the world. UG is currently celebrating its 60th anniversary and is stepping up its focus on becoming one of the leading and most sought-after educational institutions in the world for both staff and students.
A word on UG and the Canada Caribbean Institute (CCI)
The University of Guyana’s Blueprint 2040 is focused upon 4 aspirational goals two of which are global in perspective. Membership in the CCI provides a pathway of accelerating the achievement of those goals. UG Blueprint goals 3 and 4 address making the University of Guyana a centre of excellence for problem solving in 9 specific areas and also leap-frogging critical research and innovations pertinent to our region and the planet. As members of CCI’s formal network of complementary Universities “UG” sees reciprocal potential of research, teaching and learning opportunities, mobility, visibility and input into high level regional and international policy. Given Guyana’s projected rapid pace of evolution, UG as the only state University finds synergy with the membership, values and vision of the CCI in supporting Guyana’s national needs and ambitions.
Selected links to UG
University of Guyana
Centre of Excellence for Teaching and Learning (CoETaL)
School of Graduate Studies and Research
University of Guyana Green Institute
Caribbean Reference Library
Institutes of the University of Guyana
Selected News from the University of Guyana
University of Guyana CCI Director – Prof. Paloma Mohamed Martin, PhD, MS AA, Vice Chancellor, XI, The University of Guyana
University of Guyana is represented on the CCI Board of Directors by Prof. Paloma Mohamed Martin.
Paloma Mohamed is a full Professor of behavior, change and communications at the University of Guyana. She is currently the eleventh Vice Chancellor and first woman to lead the University in its 60-year history and the first woman to lead any University as Vice Chancellor in the Anglo-phone Caribbean. She has also written and edited 11 books and several academic journal papers including the noteworthy book “Communication, Power and Change in the Caribbean”. She has served on pro bono on several local and international boards including CXC and UNESCO to name a few and has also served in a technical advisory capacity to various governments and international organizations as a communications strategist and change specialist. She is a member of the Board of the Caribbean Examinations Council, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Commonwealth of Learning, The Chair of the Research Advisory Council of CXC and a member of the Council of Human and Social Development of the Caribbean Community. She is also a member of the Board of the Canada-Caribbean Institute. She has also served as an adjunct Professor of cultural diplomatics at Trent University in Peterborough, Canada.
Among several national and international awards, Prof. Paloma Mohamed has been awarded a Presidential Medal of Service in 2012 and the City of New York Award for Culture in 2013. She became the first woman Caribbean Laureate for Excellence in Arts and Letters in 2015 and was again recognized with a National Arrow of Achievement in May 2015. In committing to UG’s becoming a sustainable, future proofed top ranking University, she is credited with beginning and leading the University’s Blueprinting Process which produced its visionary BluePrint 2040, and with strict focus on fiscal governance, financial prudence, pedagogical innovation and inclusive flexibility. Her people-centered a-political intrepidness on reforms of UG’s Finance, Human Resource, and Organizational systems have been key features of the University’s recent successes.