University of Guyana

The University of Guyana, in Georgetown, Guyana is a public university established in 1963 by the Guyanese government. Cheddi Jagan, then Premier of British Guiana considered that the University of the West Indies, to which his government had contributed since 1948, was not meeting the demand of his countrymen for higher education. On January 4, 1962, Jagan wrote to Harold Drayton, then in Ghana, to ask him to seek the advice of W.E.B. DuBois on starting a new university. Drayton returned to British Guiana in December 1962, and it was on his advice that Jagan wrote to socialist scholars in the United Kingdom and United States, including Joan Robinson at the University of Cambridge, Paul Baran at Stanford University, and Lancelot Hogben at Birmingham to involve them in the recruitment of staff. The University opened on the grounds of Queen's College in late 1963. Its first chancellor was Edgar Mortimer Duke and its first Principal and Vice-Chancellor was the British biologist and mathematician, Lancelot Hogben. Organisation and structure

The university is divided into a number of faculties:

• Faculty of Arts
• Faculty of Natural Sciences
• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Faculty of Education and Humanities
• Faculty of Health Sciences
• Faculty of Technology
• Institute of Distance and Continuing Education
• Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry

It also contains the Institute of Distance and Continuing Education. Courses available by distance methods include 'Pre-University English' and 'Pre-University Mathematics'. http://www.uog.edu.gy/schools/idce/pages/distance.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Guyana

University website: http://www.uog.edu.gy/