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Georgetown, GINA, December 10, 2015
More stakeholders are coming onboard, tosupportthe Ministry of Education in realising its stated goals of integrating and utilising more fully, the use of technology in education delivery.
Coming just a few weeks, after Samsung provided an innovative smart school classroom to the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) donated fifty-nine, 21-inch television sets to the Ministry of Education today. These will allow for even more students to benefit from educational television programming in the classroom.
According to Permanent Secretary (PS), Ministry of Education DelmaNedd, the sets will be used to bring recorded lectures and educational televised programmes, produced by the Guyana Learning Channel, to several classrooms across the country.
Nedd, who collected the sets on behalf of the Ministry from Commissioner General, GRA KhurshidSattaur, at the GRA’s headquarters, explained that as soon as the Ministry heard about the donation, it put together a list of schools, which would benefit from the intervention. “… We have already streamlined how we would get some of the TV sets to the remote areas…so we are more than excited…,” she said.
Chief Education Officer (CEO), Olato Sam who joined Nedd at the exercise, applauded the GRA for coming on-board in support of the Ministry’s goals. Sam noted that all education stakeholders need to work in tandem, if the sector is to be successful and achieve the best possible outcomes.
“We alone as the Ministry of Education cannot effectively deliver the task of educating the nation’s children. Clearly for us to be successful, we need a broader based sector approach and this is why we certainly welcome the gesture,” he said.
For its part, the GRA also sees the provision of the sets as a perfect opportunity for a wide section of school aged Guyanese to follow the developments within the revenue authority. More importantly, it will instill in the students the value of complying with the various tax laws and obligations from an early age.
Sattaur explained that the donationis in keeping with the Revenue Authority’s mission of promoting compliance with Guyana’s Tax, Trade and Border laws and regulation, through education, quality and responsible enforcement programmes, thereby contributing to the economic wellbeing of Guyanese. The GRA had previously presented 15 sets to the Ministry in 2010.
“Quite often at sensitisation seminars and career fairs, the feedback from students is that ‘GRA is out to rob people’,Public Relations Officer, Melissa Baird explained. She noted that this is a notion that has no doubt been passed down by adults who are not fully educated on the roles and responsibilities of the RevenueAuthority.
“There is a need to properly educate students on the necessity of complying with the various tax laws and obligations. The Guyana Revenue Authority believes that the need to instill these values should begin at an early age,” she said. Since GRA currently produces its own weekly sensitisationprogrammes, the sets will allow for the students to be more knowledgeable about the works of the agency, she added.
Where they import these 21 inch CRT TV from ?? have not heard of those sets for over a decade,now that will take a toll on the poor kids eyes.