Guyana's Min­is­ter of Ed­u­ca­tion, Priya Man­ickc­hand, says the new­ly launched Guyana Dig­i­tal School in­tro­duces an in­no­v­a­tive plat­form de­signed to en­sure stu­dents coun­try­wide ex­cel at their ex­am­i­na­tions.

The school pro­vides eq­ui­table ac­cess to high-qual­i­ty on­line learn­ing re­sources to stu­dents in every re­gion and is aligned with the gov­ern­ment’s plan for a mod­ernised and ef­fec­tive ed­u­ca­tion sys­tem.

Ed­u­ca­tion of­fi­cials said that 2, 400 stu­dents have reg­is­tered with the school one week af­ter its in­tro­duc­tion here, and Man­ickc­hand, who in­tro­duced the plat­form to stu­dents at the Abram Zuil Sec­ondary School in Re­gion Two on Mon­day, ex­pressed con­fi­dence in the school’s po­ten­tial to catal­yse ed­u­ca­tion­al ad­vance­ment.

“The pres­i­dent’s (Ir­faan Ali) dream is that wher­ev­er chil­dren ex­ist in the coun­try they could ac­cess high qual­i­ty and the same kind of ed­u­ca­tion as if you ex­ist in George­town…The whole idea is to al­low every stu­dent, whether your par­ents are work­ing, you’re wealthy, you’re in the Rupu­nuni, or at Char­i­ty…every­body gets the same high-qual­i­ty ed­u­ca­tion,” Man­ickc­hand said.

The school’s fea­tures are tai­lored to ad­dress is­sues with­in Guyana’s ed­u­ca­tion sec­tor. The on­line plat­form fills gaps in the tra­di­tion­al school sys­tem and al­lows stu­dents to learn re­quired cours­es at their own pace.

It al­so unique­ly en­ables stu­dents to learn sub­jects not of­fered in their school’s cur­ricu­lum.

“If your school is not do­ing a sub­ject and you want to do the sub­ject, you could come here…my idea is if you don’t have a teacher in front of the class­room, you should be able to come here, do this 39 weeks of work, and pass CXC with a Grade One.”

Up­on log­ging in, stu­dents are ex­posed to an ar­ray of lec­tures, quizzes and fo­rums. Each les­son in­cludes top­ics rel­e­vant to the Bar­ba­dos-based Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) syl­labus and is pre­sent­ed in an en­gag­ing and re­lat­able man­ner for Guyanese stu­dents.

Ex­pe­ri­enced lo­cal teach­ers have been em­ployed to mon­i­tor stu­dents, host live lec­tures and an­swer stu­dents’ ques­tions.

The plat­form al­so in­te­grates ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence sys­tems to as­cer­tain stu­dents’ ar­eas of weak­ness and cu­rate cus­tomised re­me­di­al les­son plans.

GEORGE­TOWN, Guyana, Mar 11, CMC –  

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