The University of Guyana has 40 East Indian Faculty members compared to 140 African Faculty members in the Faculties of Agriculture, Arts, Education,
Health, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and Technology, and African participation is prominent at the senior levels.
Most Heads are Africans in all three types of school - nursery, elementary, and high. Only in elementary schools do East Indians show some
competitiveness with Africans for Headships. In the People’s National Congress (PNC) Administration, it was not unusual to find on average that 70 percent of the Regional Education Officers (REDOs) were Africans.
Today, the ethnic imbalance has be are Africans, followed by East Indians with 40%.
East Indians predominate in the senior positions of School Heads and Deputy School Heads only in Regions 2 and 3. Africans occupy these positions
In Regions 4 through 10. The magnitude of Africans in these senior positions, therefore, is higher than that of East Indians. Some schools only have
Most school heads in Regions 2, 3, and 6 are East Indians, while the majority of school heads in Regions 4, 5, and 10 are Africans. East
Indian school heads are found in the largest majority in Regions 2 and 3.
African school heads predominate in Regions 4 and 5.