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EDUCATION ACT
CHAPTER 39:01
Act
3 of 1876
Amended by
43 of 1927 O. 80/1980 24 of 1942 19 of 1947 26 of 1949 27 of 1953 43 of 1956
3 of 1961 7 of 1963 4 of 1972 1 of 1975 9 of 1976
12 of 1999
(inclusive) by L.R.O.
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Current Authorised Pages
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Index
of
Subsidiary Legislation
Page
Education (Control and Management of Schools) Order 38
(O. 35/1961, 43/1961)
Education (Vesting of Land in the State) (Tagmore Memorial
Secondary School) Order
40
(O. 29/1997)
Education (Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act)
(Richard Ishmael Secondary School) Order
41
(O. 3/1996)
Education (Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act)
(Tagmore Memorial Secondary School) Order
43
(O. 11/1997)
Education (Vesting of Land in the State) (Richard Ishmael
Secondary School) Order
45
(O. 7/1996)
Education (Vesting of Land in the State)(Berbice Educational
Institute) Order
46
(O. 7/1998)
Education (Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act)
(Berbice Educational Institute) Order
47
(O. 36/1996)
Education (Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act)
(Sheet Anchor Primary School) Order
49
(O. 35/1999)
Bain Gray Prizes (Government Training College and Broad
Street Government School) Rules
51
(R. 20/1950, 1/1953)
Carnegie School of Home Economics Regulations 53
(Reg. 14/2/1939, 7 1947, 20/1947, 23/1951, 25/1955, 26/1958)
Education Code Regulations 57
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(Reg. 17/1940, 37/1943, 10/1944, 43/1945, 49/1945, 1/1946.
30/1948, 7/1949, 17/1950, 2/1952, 4 of 1972, 1 of 1975)

Government Technical Institute Regulations 151
(Reg. 26/1955)
Blair Scholarships Regulations 154
(Nt. 17/10/1938)
Centenary and John Wray Scholarships Regulations 156
(Reg. 14/1959)
Government General Certificate Scholarships Regulations 159
(Reg. 6/1951, 22/1952, 17/1958, 4/1959, 14/1961, 4 of 1972)
Teachers’ Fine Fund Regulations 163
(4/9/1936)
Guyana Scholarships Regulations 164
(Reg. 13/1965, 14/1967, 28/1969, 8/1978, 5/1984)
Queen’s College and Bishop’s High School Scholarships
Regulations
174
(Reg. 1/1960)
Secondary Schools Regulations 176
(18/1957, 5/1960)
Secondary Schools (Admissions) Regulations 186
(Reg. 18/1957, 8/1963, 1/1978)

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CHAPTER 39:01
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
1. Short title.
PART I ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
2. Interpretation.
THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
3. Appointment of Officers.
4. Annual report on elementary education.
5. Power to inspect schools receiving public money.
6. Reference of complaints against teacher to magistrate for
investigation.
7. Power to cancel certificate in certain cases.
8. Consequence of cancellation or suspension.
EDUCATIONAL DISTRICTS
9. Declaration of educational districts.
ATTENDANCE OFFICERS
10. Appointment.
11. Duties of attendance officer.
12. Attendance officer may enter premises at certain times and make
inquiries.
PROVISIONS FOR ENFORCING ELEMENTARY EDUCATION OF
CHILDREN
13. Duty of parent to educate child.
14. Proceedings against parent omitting to educate child.
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SECTION
15. Proceedings with respect to child found habitually wandering or not
under control.
16. Proceedings on disobedience of magistrate’s order for attendance at
school.
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN
17. Restriction on employment of children.
18. Employer of child working on plantation.
19. Exemption of employer on proof of guilt of some other person.
20. Employment of child in contravention of the Act.
21. Wilfully making false representation as to age of child.
22. Application of sections 13 to 16.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
23. Teacher’s power of detention over children.
24. Employment of children at industrial school.
25. Provision for children required to attend school for part only of a
day.
26. Execution of order requiring child to be sent to school.
27.-29 [Repealed by 9 of 1976]
SCHOOL FEES
30. No fees in certain cases.
GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
31. Establishment of government schools.
32. Certain aided schools to be deemed to be government schools.
33. Accountability for grants and handing over of records.
34. Right of access to school.
34A. Provision of system of education.
34B. Certain aided schools to become government schools.
PROOF OF AGE OF CHILD, ETC.
35. Power in certain cases to estimate age of child.
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SECTION
36. Certificates of birth.
37. School receiving government grant to be deemed efficient.
38. Regulations as to legal proceedings.
39. Forgery of, and use of forged, certificate made evidence.
LEGAL PROCEDURE
40. Procedure.
41. Exemption from payment of fees for process.
42. Power to grant warrant to examine place in certain cases.
43. Power to amend forms.
PART II NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION
44. Constitution of National Council for Education.
45. Functions of the Council.
46. Extraordinary meetings of the Council.
47. Appointment of Secretary.
PART III
48.-53. [Repealed by Act No. 9 of 1976]
GENERAL
54. Regulations.
FIRST SCHEDULE—Forms.
SECOND SCHEDULE—Name of school.
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1929 Ed.
c. 196
1953 Ed.
c. 91 _______________________________________________________
3 of 1876 An Act to make better provision for the promotion of
education in Guyana.
[3RD FEBRUARY, 1877]
Short Title.

Interpretation.
[26 of 1949
3 of 1961
4 of 1972
1 of 1975
O. 80/1980]
c. 1:01.
l. This Act may be cited as the Education Act.
PART I ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
2. In this Part of this Act—
“aided school” means an elementary school the managers of
which receive any grant-in-aid from public funds;
“attendance officer” means an officer appointed to carry out
the provisions of this Act in any educational district;
“authorised person” means anyone who under this Act has
and is entrusted with the same rights, powers, privileges
and functions as an attendance officer;
“the Commission” means the Teaching Service Commission
established by article 136(1) of the Constitution;
“education officer” includes senior education officer,
education officer and assistant education officer;
“elementary school” means a school, or department of a
school, at which elementary education is the principal
part of the education there given;
“father” includes the reputed father and every male person
cohabiting with the mother of a child, whether he is the
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father of the child or not;
“Form” means Form in the First Schedule;
“government grant” means a grant made for the support or in
aid of an elementary school or day industrial school,
either annually or otherwise, from moneys provided by
Parliament;
“government school” means an elementary school established
by the Chief Education Officer and maintained from
moneys provided by Parliament;
“industrial school” means—
(a) any elementary school in which
theoretical and practical instruction in
agriculture or in any trade or trades,
or in both, is given and which is
recognised under the regulations as
an industrial school; or
(b) a practical instruction centre
established by the Government in
which agriculture, home economics,
industrial art, or subjects of a like
nature are taught;
“managers”, when used with reference to a school, includes
all those who have the management of any elementary
school or day industrial school, whether the legal interest
in the schoolhouse is or is not vested in them;
“parent” includes guardian and everyone who is liable to
maintain or has the actual custody of a child, and every
male person cohabiting with the mother of a child,
whether he is the father of the child or not;

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Appointment
of Officers.
[26 of 1949]

Annual report
on elementary
education.

Power to
inspect schools
receiving
public money.
[26 of 1949]

Reference of
complaints
against teacher
to magistrate
for
investigation.
[1 of 1975
9 of 1976]
“schoolhouse” includes a play-ground and all offices required
for a school;
“teacher” includes assistant teacher, pupil teacher, sewing
mistress, and everyone who forms part of the educational
staff of a school.
THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
3. (1) There shall be a Chief Education Officer and a
Deputy Chief Education Officer and one or more senior
education officers.
(2) The Deputy Chief Education Officer may
exercise all such powers and perform all such duties of the
Chief Education Officer, as may be authorised by the Chief
Education Officer.
4. The Chief Education Officer shall submit annually
to the Minister a report on the state of elementary education
throughout Guyana, in the form and containing information
with regard to the particulars directed by the Minister.
5. The Chief Education Officer and every education
officer shall have full power and authority to enter, visit, and
inspect every school or schoolhouse and all the premises or
offices used therewith, where the managers of the school have
received or have applied for any aid from moneys provided
by Parliament within the next preceding twelve months.
6. (1) If a teacher in a government school is charged by
anyone with immoral conduct as teacher or otherwise, or
cruel or improper treatment of any of the children or pupils
attending the school, the Commission may transmit a
statement, specifying the particular acts in respect whereof
the charge is made, to the magistrate of the magisterial
district within which that school is situate; and the magistrate
shall thereupon cause a copy of the statement to be served on
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Power to cancel
certificate in
certain cases.
[1 of 1975]

Consequence of
cancellation or
suspension.
[24 of 1942
1 of 1975]
the teacher, together with a summons requiring the teacher to
appear before him at any time to be therein appointed, but
not less than eight days from the day of the service of the
summons.
(2) The teacher, if he thinks fit, may answer the
particulars of the complaint in writing, or may plead orally
that he is not guilty; and the magistrate shall proceed to hear
the complaint and take evidence upon oath in the same
manner as if the complaint were a complaint in a civil matter
over which the magistrate had jurisdiction and the teacher
was the defendant therein.

(3) The magistrate shall transmit to the
Commission the evidence taken by him, with a report of what
in his opinion is the effect and weight thereof.
7. If any teacher holding a certificate granted by the
Chief Education Officer or other authority in Guyana is, in the
opinion of the magistrate and the Commission, guilty of
immoral conduct as teacher or otherwise, or of cruel or
improper treatment of any of the children or pupils under his
charge, the Chief Education Officer, acting on the advice of
the Commission, may cancel the certificate or suspend the
operation thereof for any time to him seeming meet.
8. No teacher whose certificate has been cancelled or
suspended shall be employed in any aided school until, in the
case of suspension, the period of suspension has expired, or,
in the case of cancellation, the Chief Education Officer on the
advice of the Commission has issued a new certificate to the
teacher, and no school whether an aided school or not, in
which a teacher whose certificate has been cancelled or
suspended as aforesaid is employed shall be deemed to
provide efficient elementary education.

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Declaration of
educational
districts.

Appointment.
[26 of 1949
24 of 1969]
c. 28:01
c. 62:01
c. 65:01
EDUCATIONAL DISTRICTS
9. The Minister may by order declare that any portion
of Guyana specified in the order shall form a district for
educational purposes and that district shall be called an
educational district.
ATTENDANCE OFFICERS
10. (1) For more effectually carrying out the
provisions of this Act, one or more officers may be appointed
for each educational district.
(2) The officers shall be called attendance officers
and shall receive the salaries provided for them by
Parliament.
(3) Every member of the National Assembly,
minister of religion, justice of the peace, education officer,
school manager, certificated principal teacher of a school
authorised in writing by the manager of his school, member
of any municipal council or council of a local government
district established under the Municipal and District Councils
Act or village council, district commissioner, Government
officer appointed under the State Lands Act or the Mining
Act, member of the police force, or person authorised by the
Minister, shall have and may exercise all the rights, powers,
privileges and functions vested in an attendance officer by
this Act:
Provided that—
(a) no police constable shall have and
exercise the powers given to an
attendance officer by section 15 unless
authorised or empowered as therein
mentioned; and

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Duties of
attendance
officer.
[24 of 1942]

Attendance
officer may
enter premises
at certain times
and make
inquiries.
[6 of 1997]
(b) nothing herein contained shall impose
on any person hereinbefore specified
the duties imposed on attendance
officers by section 11.
11. It shall be the duty of each attendance officer—
(a) to ascertain and report to the Chief
Education Officer every parent of
every child resident within his district
who has failed or is omitting to cause
his child to receive efficient
elementary instruction in reading,
writing and arithmetic;
(b) to enforce the provisions of this Act,
and to prosecute all those not
complying therewith; and
(c) generally, to follow the directions laid
down for his guidance by the Chief
Education Officer.
12.(1) Any attendance officer, or other authorised
person, may enter any yard, house, building, or place,
between the hours of six o’clock in the morning and five
o’clock in the evening of any day in the week except Sunday
and there make inquiries as to any child there residing or
employed.
(2) Everyone who—
(a) hinders or obstructs an attendance
officer or any other authorised person
in the performance of his duty; or
(b) wilfully makes any false
representations to an attendance
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Duty of parent
to educate
child.

Proceedings
against parent
omitting to
educate child.
officer or any other authorised person
with respect to the age or
employment of a child, whether that
child is under the age of five years or
not; or
(c) wilfully refuses to afford to an
attendance officer or any other
authorised person reasonably
requiring it, any information that he
possesses as to the age or employment
of a child, whether the child is under
the age of five years or not, shall be
liable to a fine of one thousand nine
hundred and fifty dollars.
PROVISIONS FOR ENFORCING ELEMENTARY
EDUCATION OF CHILDREN
13. It shall be the duty of the parent of every child to
cause the child to receive efficient elementary instruction in
reading, writing, and arithmetic, and if a parent fails to
perform that duty, he shall be liable to the orders and
penalties provided by this Act.
14.(1) If the parent of a child habitually and without
reasonable excuse omits to provide efficient elementary
instruction for his child, an attendance officer or other
authorised person may prefer a complaint against the parent
before a magistrate; and the magistrate, if satisfied of the truth
of the complaint, shall make an order that the child do attend
some school named in the order, being either such as the
parent selects, or, if he does not select any, such public
elementary school as the magistrate considers expedient; and
the child shall attend that school every time it is opened, or in
any other regular manner specified in the order.
(2) Any of the following reasons shall be deemed a
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First Schedule,
Form 1,
Form 2.
Proceedings
with respect to
child found
habitually
wandering or
not under
control.
reasonable excuse:
(a) that there is not within two miles,
measured according to the nearest
road, from the residence of the child
any aided school or government
school open which the child can
attend; or
(b) that the absence of the child from
school has been caused by sickness or
other unavoidable cause.
(3) Every complaint under this section may be in
Form 1, and every order under this section may be in Form 2.
(4) “Efficient elementary instruction” within the
meaning of this section means the instruction prescribed by
regulations made under this Part.
15. (1) If any child is found habitually wandering or
not under proper control or in the company of rogues,
vagabonds, disorderly persons, or reputed criminals, he may
be taken into custody by an attendance officer or other
authorised person, or by any police constable authorised by
the Chief Education Officer to detain children so found, until
a complaint can be preferred against him and he can be
brought before a magistrate.
(2) The magistrate shall inquire into the
circumstances and may either make an order—
(a) that the child do attend some
elementary school, other than an
industrial school, named in the order;
and in that case the school so named
shall be either such as the parent may
select, or if he does not select any
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First Schedule,
Form 3,
Form 4.
Proceedings on
disobedience of
magistrate’s
order for
attendance at
school.
[6 of 1997]
public elementary school the
magistrate considers expedient; or
(b) that the child shall be sent to an
industrial school to be named in the
order; or
(c) that the child shall be delivered to the
parent.
(3) When a child is taken into custody under this
section, the person taking the child into custody shall, as soon
as practicable, give notice of the detention to the parent, if the
parent is known and can be found; and the parent may
appear before the magistrate and shall have the same rights
with respect to the complaint as if it were a civil proceeding
and he was the defendant therein.
(4) Every complaint under this section may be in
Form 3, and every order under this section may be in Form 4.
16.(1) Where, without any reasonable excuse within
the meaning of this Act, an order for the attendance of a child
at school is not obeyed, any magistrate, on the complaint of
an attendance officer or other authorised person, may if he
thinks fit, order as follows:
(a) in the first case of non-compliance, if
the parent of the child does not
appear, or appears and fails to satisfy
the magistrate that he has used all
reasonable efforts to enforce
compliance with the order, the
magistrate may impose a fine of three
hundred and ninety dollars; but if the
parent satisfies the magistrate that he
has used all reasonable efforts as
aforesaid, the magistrate may,
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First Schedule,
Form 5,
Form 6.

Restriction on
employment of
children.
[19 of 1947
12 of 1999]

Employer of
child working
on plantation.
Exemption of
employer on
without inflicting a penalty, order the
child to be sent to an industrial
school; and
(b) in a second or any subsequent case of
non-compliance with the order, the
magistrate may order the child to be
sent to an industrial school; or he may
for each non-compliance inflict any
penalty aforesaid, without ordering
the child to be sent to an industrial
school:
Provided that a complaint under this section with respect
to a continuing non-compliance shall not be repeated by the
attendance officer or other authorised person at any less
interval than two weeks.
(2) Every complaint under this section may be in
Form 5, and every order under this section may be in Form 6.
EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN
17. No person shall take into his employment or
employ any child who is under the age of fifteen years:
Provided that the service rendered by a child to its
parents, being such service as is usually given by children to
their parents, shall not constitute a breach of this section
unless such service is rendered on a school day during school
hours.
18. The manager of a plantation on which a child
performs any work for the proprietors thereof shall, subject to
the other provisions of this Act, be deemed to have taken the
child into his employment.
19. (1) Where the offence of taking a child into
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proof of guilt of
some other
person.

Employment of
child in
contravention
of the Act.
[6 of 1997]
First Schedule.
Form 7.
Wilfully
making false
representation
as to age of
child.
[6 of 1997]
employment in contravention of this Act is in fact committed
by an agent or workman of the employer, the agent or
workman shall be liable to a penalty as if he were the
employer.
(2) Where an employer charged with taking a child
into his employment in contravention of this Act proves that
he has used due diligence to enforce the observance hereof,
and either that some agent or workman of his employed the
child without his knowledge or consent, or that the child was
employed on the production by the parent of a forged or false
certificate and under the belief in good faith in the
genuineness and truth of that certificate, the employer shall
be exempt from any penalty.
(3) Where the employer satisfies the person
inquiring into the matter that he is exempt under this section
by reason of the guilt of some agent, workman, or parent, and
gives all facilities in his power for proceeding against and
convicting the agent, workman, or parent, the person
inquiring into the matter shall institute proceedings against
the agent, workman, or parent, and not against the employer.
20. (1) Everyone who takes a child into his
employment, or employs a child in contravention of this Act
shall be liable to a fine of one thousand nine hundred and
fifty dollars.
(2) Every complaint for employing a child in
contravention of this Act may be in Form 7.

21. Everyone who—
(a) wilfully makes any false
representation as to the age of a child
for the purpose of procuring the
employment of that child in
contravention of this Act; or
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Application of
sections 13 to
16.
[24 of 1942]
[12 of 1999]

Teacher’s
power of
detention over
children.
Employment of
children at
industrial
school.

Provision for
children
required to
attend school
for part only of
a day.

Execution of
order requiring
child to be sent
to school.
(b) uses any false certificate knowing it to
be false,
shall be liable to a fine of four thousand eight hundred and
seventy-five dollars.
22. Sections 13 to 16 (inclusive) shall apply to children
between the ages of six and fifteen.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS
23. Every child required to attend an industrial school
or sent there by his parents may be detained by the teacher
during the prescribed hours.
24.(1) Every child attending an industrial school may
be employed in the vicinity of the school during prescribed
hours in agricultural pursuits on any plantation or lands or in
any workshop:
Provided that the full value of any labour performed by a
child after deducting the cost of the instruction and of the
food (if any) supplied at the cost of the school to the child
shall be paid to the parent of or secured for the child.
(2) The amount that may be deducted for that cost
shall be fixed by the Chief Education Officer.
25. Provision shall be made at every industrial school
for allowing children who are only required to attend an
elementary school for two and a half hours in the day to
receive instruction in elementary education in the school
without becoming subject to the industrial training thereat.
26. Every child ordered by a magistrate to be sent to
an industrial school may be taken, at any time while the order
continues in force, to the industrial school named in the order
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No fees in
certain cases.
[24 of 1942]

Establishment
of government
schools.

Certain aided
schools to be
deemed to be
government
schools.
Second
Schedule.
[3 of 1961]
by an attendance officer or authorised person, or by anyone
empowered in writing by an attendance officer or authorised
person.
[Sections 27 to 29 (inclusive) repealed by 7 of 1976]
SCHOOL FEES
30. No fees shall be charged at any school receiving a
government grant in respect of elementary instruction given
to any pupil.

GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS
31.(1) If in any educational district the Minister on
economical or other grounds so directs, the Chief Education
Officer, as soon as the funds are provided for the purpose by
Parliament, shall erect proper schoolhouses and establish and
maintain sufficient schools in that district.
(2) Those schools when established shall be called
government schools.
(3) When a government school has been
established in an educational district, the Chief Education
Officer may, at his discretion after fair notice, withdraw or
withhold all government grants from any aided school within
two miles of the government schoolhouse.
32. (1) The Minister may by order declare that on a
date to be specified in the order, being not less than one
month after the date of the order, (hereinafter referred to as
the “appointed date”), any aided school listed in the Second
Schedule, shall for the purposes of control and management
cease to be an aided school, and shall thereafter for the said
purposes, notwithstanding this Act, be deemed to be a
government school under section 29.

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Accountability
for grants and
handing over
of records.
[3 of 1961]

Right of access
to school.
[3 of 1961]
(2) As soon as practicable after the making of the
order under the preceding subsection a copy thereof shall be
served on the governing body of the said aided school.
(3) Where an aided school is deemed to be a
government school by virtue of subsection (1), the governing
body of such school and any other manager appointed by
them shall, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Act
or any regulations made thereunder, cease to be recognized
for the purposes of regulation 5 of the Education Code, and
the said governing body and any such manager shall not
thereafter be entitled to exercise any powers and perform any
duties in relation to the control and management of the said
school; and the Chief Education Officer shall thereupon be
responsible for the control and management of the said
school.

30. (1) Every governing body or manager of an aided
school that is deemed to be a government school in pursuance
of subsection (1) of section 32 shall, not later than one month
after the appointed date or within such further period as the
Chief Education Officer may allow, render to the Chief
Education Officer an account for every grant made in
connection with the control and management of the school
since the last account was rendered.
(2) Every governing body or manager of an aided
school that is deemed to be a government school as aforesaid,
shall on the appointed date at the said school deliver or cause
to be delivered to the Chief Education Officer or any person
authorised by him to act on his behalf all records in their
possession in connection with the management of the said
school, and all furniture and other effects purchased out of
funds made available by the Government.
34. On and after the appointed date, any person shall
have the right to enter into any aided school that is deemed to
be a government school or upon any land on which it is
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Provision of
system of
education.
[6 of 1997]

Certain aided
schools to
become
Government
schools
[6 of 1997]
situate, for any lawful purpose in connection with the
activities of the school.
34A. (1) Except with the permission in writing of the
Minister, no person other than the Chief Education Officer,
shall establish, maintain or manage any school or other place
of education for the provision of nursery, elementary,
secondary or further education, and any permission granted
by the Minister shall be subject to such terms and conditions
as the Minister may deem fit to impose.
(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of
subsection (1), or breaches any term or condition imposed by
the Minister pursuant to that subsection, shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine of sixty-five thousand dollars
and to imprisonment for twelve months, and, in the case of a
continuing offence, to an additional fine of six thousand five
hundred dollars for every day during which the offence
continues subsequent to the date to which the conviction
relates.
34B. (1) On the date on which this section comes into
operation (hereinafter in this section referred to as “the
appointed date”) every school which at any time during 1976
and prior to that date was an aided school shall thereupon be
deemed to be a government school.
(2) Where an aided school is deemed to be a
government school by virtue of subsection (1)—
(a) the Chief Education Officer shall
thereupon become responsible for the
control and management of the school
and section 31 shall apply in relation
thereto;
(b) there shall be vested in the State,
without further assurance—
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(i) the schoolhouse,
(ii) such land appurtenant to any
schoolhouse, as is described in
an order made by the Minister
under subsection (4), subject to
such interests in or rights over
such land used exclusively for
public religious worship or any
building used in connection
therewith, as may be set out
and described in the said order;
(iii) all records, furniture and other
equipment, used in connection
with and for the purpose of
carrying on the school,
notwithstanding any written
law or rule of law.
(3) The provisions of subsection (2) (b)(i)and (ii)
shall, as the same apply to an aided school which is deemed
to be a government school by virtue of subsection (1), apply
mutatis mutandis on the appointed date in relation to every
school in respect of which an order was made under section
32(1) prior to the appointed date.
(4) The Minister shall, as soon as practicable, by
order, prescribe the boundaries of any land appurtenant to a
schoolhouse for the purposes of subsection (2) subject to any
easements or other interests as may be specified in the order
and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any other
law the Registrar of Deeds shall take due notice thereof and
shall make such annotations on the records as may be
necessary to give effect to such order.

(5) Where property has been vested in the State by
virtue of subsection (2)(b), the Minister may, in such
circumstances as he thinks just, pay compensation in such
amount and in such manner as may be determined by him for
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any such property and any determination made by him under
this subsection shall be final and conclusive and shall not be
called in question in any court on the ground that the
compensation is not adequate.
(6) Every governing body or manager of an aided
school that is deemed to be a government school by virtue of
this section shall not later than one month after the appointed
date or within such further period as may be allowed by the
Chief Education Officer render to him an account for every
government grant made in connection with the control and
management of the school since the last account was
rendered.
(7) On the appointed date, or later with the
approval of the Chief Education Officer, every governing
body or manager aforesaid, or any person duly authorised by
either of them, or any other person having the possession or
control of the records, furniture and other equipment, used in
connection with the carrying on of the aided school and
vested in the State under subsection (2)(c) shall, at the said
school deliver them or cause them to be delivered to the Chief
Education Officer or any person authorised by him to act on
his behalf.
(8) On the appointed date, the provisions of any
regulations made under this Act, in so far as they relate to
aided schools and the governing bodies and managers
thereof, shall, except for the purposes of subsection (6), or (7)
or (11), cease to have effect and the regulations shall
accordingly be construed and have effect with such
adaptations, exceptions, modifications and qualifications, as
may be necessary for the purpose.
(9) For the purposes of this section, the expression
“aided school” includes the schools known as the Christ
Church Secondary School, the Stewartville Government
School and the David Rose School for Handicapped Children.
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Power in
certain cases to
estimate age of
child.

Certificates of
birth.
[24 of 1942]
School
receiving
government
grant to be
(10) The Minister may, by order which shall be
subject to negative resolution of the National Assembly,
extend the application of this section to any other school or
place of education, whether or not in receipt of aid from
moneys provided by Parliament, with such adaptations,
exceptions, modifications and qualifications as the Minister
considers necessary for the purpose and the order may, in
addition, contain such incidental or consequential provisions
as may be necessary for the purpose of giving full effect to the
order.
(11) If any person fails to comply with the
provisions of subsection (6) or (7) he shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine of thirty-two thousand five
hundred dollars and imprisonment for six months.
PROOF OF AGE OF CHILD, ETC.
35. Where the age of a child is required to be
ascertained in any judicial proceeding under this Act, the
magistrate or judge having cognizance of the proceeding, if
the child is produced before him, after considering any
evidence adduced on the point and the appearance of the
child, and in the absence of clear testimony to the contrary,
may declare and note on the proceedings what in his opinion
is the true age of the child, and that age for all purposes
connected with that proceeding, shall be taken to be the true
age of the child at that time.
36. The Chief Education Officer, everyone authorised
in writing by him, and every attendance officer, shall be
entitled to obtain from the general register office, a certified
copy of any entry in any register in that office with respect to
the birth of a child.
37. Every school receiving a government grant shall,
for the purposes of this Act, be deemed an efficient school,
and every parent who causes his child regularly to attend any
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deemed
efficient.
[3 of 1961]
Regulations as
to legal
proceedings.
[26 of 1949
6 of 1997]
school receiving a government grant shall, in all proceedings
under this Act, be deemed to have performed his duty with
respect to the elementary education of his child.

38. In any proceedings before a magistrate for offences
and penalties under this Act—
(a) the magistrate may by summons call
upon any parent or employer of a
child, required by this Act to attend
school, to produce the child before
him, and anyone failing without
reasonable excuse to his satisfaction to
comply with the summons shall be
liable to a fine of nine hundred and
seventy-five dollars;
(b) a certificate purporting to be under
the hand of the principal teacher of an
elementary school, stating that a child
is or is not attending that school, or
stating the particulars of the
attendance of a child thereat, or
stating that a child has been certified
by the Chief Education Officer or an
education officer to have reached a
particular standard of education, shall
be evidence of the facts stated in the
certificate;
(c) where a child is apparently of the age
alleged for the purposes of the
proceeding, it shall lie on the
defendant to prove that the child is
not of that age;
(d) if a child is attending an elementary
school which is not an aided school, it
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Forgery of, and
use of forged,
certificate made
evidence.
Procedure.

Exemption
from payment
of fees for
shall lie on the defendant to show that
the school is efficient, and the
magistrate in considering whether an
elementary school is efficient, shall
have regard to the age of the child
and to the standard of education
corresponding to that age prescribed
by the education code for the time
being in force;
(e) anyone may appear by a member of
his family or any other person
authorised by him in that behalf.
39. Everyone who—
(a) forges or counterfeits; or
(b) gives or signs knowing to be false in
any particular; or
(c) uses, knowing to be forged,
counterfeit, or false,
any certificate by this Act made evidence of any matter, shall
be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for three
months.
LEGAL PROCEDURE
40. All penalties incurred under this Act may be sued
for and recovered in a summary manner before a magistrate;
and all orders which a magistrate is authorised to make under
this Act shall be applied for, made, and enforced in the
manner provided by the Summary Jurisdiction Acts.
41. No one whether complainant, plaintiff, or
defendant, shall be required to pay any fees for process in a
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process.
Power to grant
warrant to
examine place
in certain cases.
[6 of 1997]

Power to
amend Forms.
[43 of 1956]

Constitution of
National
Council for
Education.
[43 of 1956
7 of 1963]
proceeding, other than those for the recovery of school fees,
taken or had under this Act against the parent or employer of
a child.
42.(1) If it appears to a magistrate, on the complaint of
an attendance officer or other authorised person, that there is
reasonable cause to believe that a child is employed in
contravention of this Act in any place, whether a building or
not, the magistrate may, by order under his hand, empower
an attendance officer, or other authorised person, or police
officer, to enter that place, at any reasonable time within
seven days from the date of the order, and to examine the
place, and anyone found there, touching the employment of
any child there.
(2) Everyone who refuses admission to an officer
authorised by order under this section, or obstructs him in the
discharge of his duty when acting under this section, shall for
each offence be liable to a fine of nine thousand seven
hundred and fifty dollars.
43. The Minister may by order amend the First
Schedule.
PART II
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR EDUCATION
44. (1) There shall be established a body to be known
as “The National Council for Education” (hereinafter referred
to as “the Council”) consisting of a Chairman and not more
than thirteen other members appointed by the Minister.
(2) Subject to this section, every member of the
Council shall hold office for such period as is specified in the
instrument or other document appointing him, and he shall
be eligible for re-appointment.
(3) Seven members (including the Chairman or any
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Functions of
the Council.
[9 of 1976]

Extraordinary
meetings of the
Council.

Appointment
of Secretary.
other member acting as such) shall form a quorum at any
meeting of the Council.
(4) If any member of the Council—
(a) departs from Guyana without the
leave of the Minister; or
(b) remains out of Guyana after the
expiration of his leave; or
(c) fails without reasonable excuse (the
sufficiency whereof shall be
determined by the Minister) to attend
six consecutive meetings of the
Council,
he shall cease to be a member of the Council.
(5) The Chairman or a member of the Council may
resign his office by writing under his hand addressed to the
Minister, but he shall be eligible for re-appointment.
45. The Council shall advise the Minister upon
matters relating to nursery, elementary, secondary, or further
education, and may at any time make recommendations to
the Minister in respect of such matters.
46. An extraordinary meeting of the Council shall be
summoned by the direction of the Minister or by the secretary
on the written request of a majority of the members of the
Council.
47. Subject to the approval of the Minister, the Council
may appoint a secretary at such salary and on such terms and
conditions as the Council thinks fit, and the salary shall be
paid out of moneys provided by Parliament for the purposes
of education.
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Regulations.
[7 of 1963
1 of 1975
9 of 1976]
PART III
[Sections 48 to 53 (inclusive repealed by Act No. 9 of 1976)]
GENERAL
54.(1) The Minister may from time to time make
regulations generally for establishing and maintaining an
efficient system of education throughout Guyana.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the
provisions of subsection (1), the Minister may make
regulations for all or any of the following purposes:
(a) for securing the proper application
and distribution of all moneys
provided by Parliament for the
purposes of education;
(b) for awarding scholarships or other
awards or for withholding any such
scholarship or award and for
controlling persons holding such
scholarships or awards;
(c) for the government and discipline of
all schools of every kind maintained
from moneys provided by Parliament.
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GUYANA.
The complaint of an attendance officer
or other authorised person, taken before me, the undersigned
magistrate for the district, at in
the county of this day of
20 , who saith that residing at in
the said county, being the parent, within the meaning of the
Education Act, of the child named and
which child is above the age of five years and under the age
of twelve years, has, for the period of next
before the date of this complaint, habitually and without
reasonable excuse omitted to provide efficient elementary
education for h said child, the said in
contravention of the said Act; and thereupon he, the said
educational district officer or other authorised person, makes
application that the said may be dealt with
according to law.
A.B. Taken before me the day and year and in the place above mentioned.
(Signed)
C.D.
Magistrate
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FORM 2
Order on parent for attendance of child at school
GUYANA
County of
Be it remembered that on the day of
s. 14
Complaint against parent for not educating child
FORM 1
FORMS
FIRST SCHEDULE
s. 14
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20 , complaint was made before a
magistrate for the district by on
attendance officer, or other authorised person, that
residing at in the county of being
the parent, within the meaning of the Education Act, of the
child named who is above the age
of five years and under the age of twelve years, had, for the
period of next before the said day
of 20 , habitually and without reasonable
excuse omitted to provide efficient elementary education for
the said child, the said in contravention of the
said Act, and that on the day of 20
, at the court room, at in the said county
of the matter of the said complaint was
heard and investigated by the undersigned magistrate for the
district; and now, being satisfied of the truth
of that complaint, I do order that the said do
cause the said child to attend the school at [here describe the
school] being the school which the said parent has selected [or
which, as the parent has not selected any, I have named] on
[here specify how many days on which the child is to attend school]
in each week during which that school shall be open for
hours on each such day.

Dated this day of 20 , at
(Signed)
C.D.
Magistrate
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s. 15
FORM 3
Complaint against child found habitually wandering
GUYANA.
The complaint of an attendance officer,
or other authorised person, taken before me, the undersigned
magistrate for the district, at in
the county of this day of 20 ,
who saith that being a child subject to the provisions
of the Education Act, has, for the period of next
before the date of this complaint, been found within the
educational district habitually wandering,
[or not under proper control, or in the company of rogues or
vagabonds or disorderly persons or reputed criminals, as the
circumstances of the case may require].

A.B.
Taken before me the day and year and at the place first
above mentioned.
(Signed)
C.D.
Magistrate
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FORM 4
Order under section 15
GUYANA.
Be it remembered that on the day of
20 , at the court room in the county of in
pursuance of the Education Act, I, magistrate for
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s. 16
the district, do order that being
a child subject to the provisions of section 15 of the said Act,
do attend the public elementary school at being
the school which the parent of the said child has selected [or
which, as the parent of the said child has not selected any, I
have named] for days in each week during which
that school shall be open for hours on each of those
days, [or be sent to the industrial school at or be
delivered to his parent].
Dated this day of 20 .
(Signed)
C.D.
Magistrate
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FORM 5
Complaint for non-compliance with order of magistrate
GUYANA.
The complaint of an attendance officer
or other authorised person, taken before me, the undersigned
magistrate for the district, at in
the county of this day of 20 , who
saith that heretofore on the day of
20 , an order was made by , magistrate
for the district, that being the parent,
within the meaning of the Education Act, of the child named
should cause the said child
to attend, and that the said child should attend, the school at
therein named, in the manner
specified in the said order. and that the said now
residing at in the county of has,
for the period of next before the date of this
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complaint, failed, without reasonable excuse, to comply with
the said order in contravention of the said Act, and thereupon
he, the said attendance officer, or other authorised person,
makes application that the said may be dealt
with according to law.
A.B.
Taken before me the day and year and at the place above-
mentioned.
(Signed)
C.D.
Magistrate
NOTE.—For a second or any subsequent case of non-compliance
with an order made by a magistrate after the words “to comply
with the said order, in contravention of the said Act,” proceed
as follows:—and further that he, the said heretofore,
and before the period mentioned in this complaint, to wit, on
the day of 20 , was adjudged to
have failed to comply with the said order without reasonable
excuse.
___________________
FORM 6
Order under section 16
GUYANA.
Whereas on the complaint of an attendance
officer, or other authorised person, it has been made to appear
to me, the undersigned magistrate for the
district, that without any reasonable excuse, the order made
by magistrate for the district,
requiring that residing at in the
county of being the parent, within the meaning
of the Education Act, of the child named should
cause the child to attend, and that the child should attend, the
school therein named at the times therein specified, has not
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been complied with; and whereas the said parent, the said
has failed to satisfy me that he has used all reasonable efforts
to enforce compliance with the said order, I, the said
magistrate, do, this day of
20 , at order the said to
pay to the said attendance officer, or other authorised person,
the sum of and if the said sum is not paid
forthwith [or on or before the day of next]
I do order and adjudge the said to be imprisoned
in the prison at in the said county, for the
space of days, unless the said sum shall be sooner paid.
Dated this day of 20 , at
in the said county.
(Signed)
C.D.
Magistrate
NOTE.—Where, in the first case of non-compliance, the
magistrate orders the child to be sent to an industrial school, proceed
from the words “has not been complied with” as follows:—and
whereas the said parent, the said has
satisfied me that he has used all reasonable efforts to enforce
compliance with the said order, I, the said magistrate, under
the provisions of the said Act, do this day of
20 , at
in the county of order that the said
shall be sent to the industrial school at
and there detained until the day of ,
20 .
Where, in the second case of non-compliance, the magistrate orders
the child to be sent to an industrial school, proceed from the words
in the form “has not been complied with” as follows:—“and
whereas the said has been previously adjudged to
have failed, without reasonable excuse to comply with that
order, I, the said magistrate,” as in the last case.
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FORM 7
Complaint for employing child in contravention of the Act
GUYANA.
The complaint of taken before me, the under-
signed magistrate for the district, at in the
county of this day of 20 ,
who saith that residing at in the
said county, did on the day of 20 ,
take into his employment [or employ]at in the
said county, one then being a child subject to
the provisions of the Education Act, in contravention of the
said Act.
A.B.
Taken before me this day and year and at the place
above-mentioned.
(Signed)
C.D.
Magistrate
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SECOND SCHEDULE NAME OF SCHOOL
St. Matthew’s Anglican Providence
Grove Anglican
Supply Anglican
St. Mary’s Anglican Goed Fortuin
St. Simon’s Anglican
La Bonne Intention Anglican
Lusignan Anglican
St. Augustine’s Anglican
Non Pariel Anglican
St. Mark’s Anglican Paradise
St. Alban’s Anglican
St. Gabriel’s Anglican
Bath Settlement Anglican
No. 59 Anglican
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Leeds Anglican
Dartmouth Anglican (St. Barnabas)
Jacklow Anglican
Endeavour Anglican
St. Mary’s Anglican Hackney
Kingston Methodist
Plaisance Methodist
Strath Campbell Methodist
Liberty Methodist
Christianburg Church of Scotland
Cornelia Ida Church of Scotland
Mahaica Church of Scotland
Belmont Church of Scotland
St. Columba’s Church of Scotland
Manchester Church of Scotland
Good Hope Church of Scotland
Huist’Dieren Church of Scotland
Malgretout Roman Catholic
St. Francis Roman Catholic
Santa Rosa Roman Catholic
Ramjit Canadian Mission
Hague Canadian Mission
MacGillivary Canadian Mission
John Gibson Canadian Mission
De Hoop Canadian Mission
Biaboo Canadian Mission
Novar Canadian Mission
Bohemia Canadian Mission
No. 56 Canadian Mission
Gibson Fisher Canadian Mission
Ridge Canadian Mission
Maryville Canadian Mission
Bethel Congregational
Ithaca Congregational
No. 5 Congregational
Arthurville School
St. James Anglican, Waramuri
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SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION
_________________
O.35/1961
43/1961 EDUCATION (CONTROL AND
MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOLS) ORDER
made under section 2
Citation.
Government
schools.
1. This Order may be cited as the Education (Control
and Management of Schools) Order.
2. It is hereby declared that on the 1st day of July,
1961, the aided schools listed in the Schedule to this Order
shall, for the purposes of control and management, cease to be
aided schools and shall thereafter for the said purposes,
notwithstanding the provisions of the Act or any regulations
made thereunder, be deemed to be government schools under
section 32 of the Act.
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SCHEDULE
St. Matthew’s Anglican Providence
Grove Anglican
Supply Anglican
St. Mary’s Anglican
Goed Fortuin
St. Simon’s Anglican
Plaisance Methodist
La Bonne Intention Anglican
Lusignan Anglican

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St. Augustines Anglican
Non Pariel Anglican
St. Mark’s Anglican Paradise
St. Alban’s Anglican
St. Gabriel’s Anglican
Bath Settlement Anglican
No. 59 Anglican
Leeds Anglican
Dartmouth Anglican (St. Barnabas)
Jacklow Anglican
Endeavour Anglican
St. Mary’s Anglican Hackney
Kingston Methodist
Strath Campbell Methodist
Liberty Methodist
Christianburg Church of Scotland
Cornelia Ida Church of Scotland
Mahaica Church of Scotland
Belmont Church of Scotland
St. Columba’s Church of Scotland
Manchester Church of Scotland
Good Hope Church of Scotland
Huist’Dieren Church of Scotland
Malgretout Roman Catholic
St. Francis Roman Catholic
Santa Rosa Roman Catholic
Ramjit Canadian Mission
Hague Canadian Mission
MacGillivary Canadian Mission
John Gibson Canadian Mission
De Hoop Canadian Mission
Biaboo Canadian Mission
Novar Canadian Mission
Bohemia Canadian Mission
No. 56 Canadian Mission
Gibson Fisher Canadian Mission
Ridge Canadian Mission
Maryville Canadian Mission
Education (Control and Management of Schools) Order

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Bethel Congregational
Ithaca Congregational
No. 5 Congregational
Arthurville School
St. James’ Anglican,
Waramuri
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OO. 3/1996 EDUCATION (EXTENSION OF APPLICATION
OF SECTION 34B OF THE ACT) (RICHARD
ISHMAEL SECONDARY SCHOOL) ORDER
made under section 34B (10)
Citation.
Extension of
application of
section 34B of
the Act to
Richard
Ishmael
Secondary
School.
Modification of
certain
provisions of
34B of the Act
for purposes of
this Order.
1. This Order may be cited as the Education
(Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act) (Richard
Ishmael Secondary School) Order.
2. Subject to clause 3, the provisions of section 34B of
the Act area hereby extended to the Richard Ishmael
Secondary School Woolford Avenue, Thomas Lands,
Georgetown Demerara:
3. For the purposes of this Order, section 34B of the
Act shall have effect as if-
(a) for subsection (1); the following
subsection were substituted-
(1) On the date on which the
Education (Extension of
Application of Section 34B of
the Act) (Richard Ishmael
Secondary School) Order”
Education (Control and Management of Schools) Order Education (Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act) (Richard
Ishmael Secondary School) Order
Order
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comes into operation
(hereinafter in this section
referred to as the appointed
date”) the secondary school
known as the Richard Ishmael
Secondary School shall
thereupon be deemed to be a
government secondary school.
(b) in the opening part of subsection (2),
for the words “an aided school”, the
words “Richard Ishmael Secondary
School” were substituted;
(c) subsections (3) and (9) were deleted;
(d) in subsection (6), for the words
“Every governing body or manager of
an aided school”, the words “The
governing body or manager of the
Richard Ishmael Secondary School”
were substituted;
(e) in subsection (7), for the word “every”
the word “the” were substituted and
for the words “aided schools and
vested in the State under subsection
(2) (c)”, the words “Richard Ishmael
Secondary School vested in the State
under subsection (2) (b) (iii)”, were
substituted;
(f) in subsection (8), for the words “aided
schools and the governing bodies and
managers”, the words “the Richard
Ishmael Secondary School governing
body and manager” were substituted;
Education (Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act) (Richard Ishmael
Secondary School) Order
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(g) for the words “government school”,
wherever they appear, there were
substituted the words “government
secondary school”.
_____________________
O. 7/1996 EDUCATION (VESTING OF LAND IN THE
STATE) (RICHARD ISHMAEL SECONDARY
SCHOOL) ORDER
made under section 34B (4) and (10)
Citation.
Land vested by
Order in the
state.
1. This Order may be cited as the Education (Vesting
of Land in the State) (Richard Ishmael Secondary School)
Order.
2. The land described in the Schedule and
appurtenant to the schoolhouse Richard Ishmael Secondary
School, to which the application of section 34B of the Act is
extended by the Education (Extension of Application of
Section 34B of the Act) (Richard Ishmael Secondary School)
Order and in consequence of which order this order is made,
is hereby vested in the State without further assurance.
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SCHEDULE
The tract of land situate at and being a part of that
portion of Plantation Thomas known as Nonpareil Park, the
boundaries of which are as follows—
Commencing at a wooden paal RMW N 105˚ 11’
(true) 61 from an iron paal DLM marking the
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north-western boundary of the tract of land
surveyed and shown laid down on a plan made by
R.M. Wong, Public Works Department Surveyor,
dated 21st September, 1950 and extending, thence
N 105 ˚ 11’ (true) 1115 ft., thence N 195 ˚ 11’ (true)
175 ft., thence N 285 ˚ 11’ (true) 1115 ft., thence N
15 ˚ 11’ (true) 175 ft., back
to the point of commencement and having an area of 4.479
acres, as shown on a plan by S.S.M. Insanally, dated 23rd July,
1951, and recorded in the Department of Lands and Mines as
Plan No. 5951.
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O. 36/1996 EDUCATION (EXTENSION OF APPLICATION
OF SECTION 34B OF THE ACT) (BERBICE
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE) ORDER
made under section 34B (10)
Citation.
Extension of
application of
section 34B of
the Act to
Berbice
Educational
Institute.
Modification of
certain
provisions of
34B of the Act
for purposes of
1. This Order may be cited as the Education
(Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act) (Berbice
Educational Institute) Order.
2. Subject to clause 3, the provisions of section 34B of
the Act area hereby extended to the Berbice Educational
Institute, Town Savannah, New Amsterdam, Berbice,
Guyana.
3. For the purposes of this Order, section 34B of the
Act shall have effect as if—
(a) for subsection (1); the following
Education (Vesting of land in the State) (Richard Ishmael) Order
Education (Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act) (Berbice Educational
Institute) Order
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this Order.
subsection were substituted—
(1) On the date on which the
Education (Extension of
Application of Section 34B of
the Act) (Berbice Educational
Institute) Order” comes into
operation (hereinafter in this
section referred to as “the
appointed date”) the secondary
school known as the Berbice
Educational Institute shall
thereupon be deemed to be a
government secondary school.
(b) in the opening part of subsection (2),
for the words “an aided school”, the
words “Berbice Educational Institute”
were substituted;
(c) subsections (3) and (9) were deleted;
(d) in subsection (6), for the words
“Every governing body or manager of
an aided school”, the words “The
governing body or manager of the
Berbice Educational Institute” were
substituted;
(e) in subsection (7), for the word “every”
the word “the” were substituted and
for the words “aided schools and
vested in the State under subsection
(2) (c)”, the words “Berbice
Educational Institute vested in the
State under subsection (2) (b) (iii)”,
were substituted;
(f) in subsection (8), for the words “aided
Education (Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act) (Berbice
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schools and the governing bodies and
managers”, the words “the Berbice
Educational Institute governing body
and manager” were substituted;
(g) for the words “government school”,
wherever they appear, there were
substituted the words “government
secondary school”.
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O. 11/1997 EDUCATION (EXTENSION OF APPLICATION
OF SECTION 34B OF THE ACT) (TAGORE
MEMORIAL SECONDARY SCHOOL) ORDER
made under section 34B (10)
Citation.
Extension of
application of
section 34B of
the Act to
Tagore
Memorial
Secondary
School.
Modification of
certain
provisions of
34B of the Act
for purposes of
this Order.
1. This Order may be cited as the Education
(Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act) (Tagore
Memorial Secondary School) Order.
2. Subject to clause 3, the provisions of section 34B of
the Act area hereby extended to the Tagore Memorial
Secondary School, No. 63 Village, Corentyne, Berbice.
3. For the purposes of this Order, section 34B of the
Act shall have effect as if—
(a) for subsection (1); the following
subsection were substituted—
Education (Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act) (Berbice Educational
Institute) Order
Education (Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act) (Tagore Memorial
Secondary School) Order
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(1) On the date on which the
Education (Extension of
Application of Section 34B of
the Act) (Tagore Memorial
Secondary School) Order”
comes into operation
(hereinafter in this section
referred to as “the appointed
date”) the secondary school
known as the Tagore Memorial
Secondary School shall
thereupon be deemed to be a
government secondary school.
(b) in the opening part of subsection (2),
for the words “an aided school”, the
words “Tagore Memorial Secondary
School” were substituted;
(c) subsections (3) and (9) were deleted;
(d) in subsection (6), for the words
“Every governing body or manager of
an aided school”, the words “The
governing body or manager of the
Tagore Memorial Secondary School”
were substituted;
(e) in subsection (7), for the word “every”
the word “the” were substituted and
for the words “aided schools and
vested in the State under subsection
(2) (c)”, the words “Tagore Memorial
Secondary School vested in the State
under subsection (2) (b) (iii)”, were
substituted;
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(f) in subsection (8), for the words “aided
schools and the governing bodies and
managers”, the words “the Richard
Ishmael Secondary School governing
body and manager” were substituted;
(g) for the words “government school”,
wherever they appear, there were
substituted the words “government
secondary school”.
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O. 29/1997 EDUCATION (VESTING OF LAND IN THE
STATE) (TAGORE MEMORIAL SECONDARY
SCHOOL) ORDER
made under 34B (4) and (10)
Citation.
Land vested in
the State by
Order.
1. This Order may be cited as the Education (Vesting
of Land in the State) (Tagore Memorial Secondary School)
Order.
2. The land described in the Schedule and
appurtenant to the schoolhouse Richard Ishmael Secondary
School, to which the application of section 34B of the Act is
extended by the Education (Extension of Application of
Section 34B of the Act) (Tagore Memorial Secondary School)
Order and in consequence of which order this order is made,
is hereby vested in the State without further assurance.
SCHEDULE
The tract of land situate on Corentyne coast in the
County of Berbice and being a portion of South Half Lot No.
Education (Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act) (Tagore Memorial
Secondary School) Order
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63 Beach Benab the description of which is as follows-
Block S Area – 2.0 acres and
Block T Area – 2.783 acres
as shown on a plan by R. T. John, Government Land Surveyor
dated 24th July, 1997.
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O. 7/1998 EDUCATION (VESTING OF LAND IN THE
STATE) (BERBICE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE)
ORDER
made under section 34B (4) and (10)
Citation.
Land vested by
Order in the
state.
1. This Order may be cited as the Education (Vesting
of Land in the Sate) (Berbice Educational Institute) Order.
2. The Land described in the schedule and
appurtenant to the school—house of the Berbice Educational
Institute, to which the application of section 34B of the Act is
extended by the education (Extension of Application of
Section 34B of the Act) (Berbice Educational Institute) Order,
and in consequence of which order this Order is made, is
hereby vested in the State without further assurance.
SCHEDULE
The portion of land known as tract “A”, being a portion
of Grant No. 2596 known as Stanleytown, Savannah, New
Amsterdam, Berbice, containing an area of 3.7 acres in the
Town of New Amsterdam and County of Berbice as shown
on a plan by No. 10109 dated 9th November, 1961 by M.
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Rahaman, Sworn Land Surveyor, and deposited in the
Department of Lands and Mines on 30th November, 1961.
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O. 35/1999 EDUCATION (EXTENSION OF APPLICATION
OF SECTION 34B OF THE ACT) (SHEET
ANCHOR PRIMARY SCHOOL) ORDER
made under section 34B (10)
Citation.
Extension of
application of
section 34B of
the Act to Sheet Anchor
Primary
School.
Modification of
certain
provisions of
34B of the Act
for purposes of
this Order.
1. This Order may be cited as the Education
(Extension of Application of Section 34B of the Act) (Sheet
Anchor Primary School) Order.
2. Subject to clause 3, the provisions of section 34B of
the Act area hereby extended to the Sheet Anchor Primary
School, Sheet Anchor Village, East Canje, Berbice.
3. For the purposes of this Order, section 34B of the
Act shall have effect as if—
(a) for subsection (1); the following
subsection were substituted—
(1) On the date on which the
Education (Extension of
Application of Section 34B of
the Act) (Sheet Anchor Primary
School) Order” comes into
operation (hereinafter in this
section referred to as “the
appointed date”) the secondary
school known as the Sheet
Education (Vesting of Land in the State) (Berbice Educational Institute) Order
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Anchor Primary School shall
thereupon be deemed to be a
government secondary school.
(b) in the opening part of subsection (2),
for the words “an aided school”, the
words “Sheet Anchor Primary
School” were substituted;
(c) subsections (3) and (9) were deleted;
(d) in subsection (6), for the words
“Every governing body or manager of
an aided school”, the words “The
governing body or manager of the
Sheet Anchor Primary School” were
substituted;
(e) in subsection (7), for the word “every”
the word “the” were substituted and
for the words “aided schools and
vested in the State under subsection
(2) (c)”, the words “Sheet Anchor
Primary School vested in the State
under subsection (2) (b) (iii)”, were
substituted;
(f) in subsection (8), for the words “aided
schools and the governing bodies and
managers”, the words “the Sheet
Anchor Primary School governing
body and manager” were substituted;
(g) for the words “government school”,
wherever they appear, there were
substituted the words “government
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secondary school”.
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Reg. 4/9/1936 TEACHERS’ FINE FUND REGULATIONS
made under section 54
Citation.
Interpretation.

Fines to be
deducted from
salaries and
deposited in
Post Office
Savings Banks.

Authority for
withdrawal of
money from
account.
Investment of
fund.

Utilisation of
fund.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Teachers’
Fine Fund Regulations.
2. In these Regulations “Fund” means the Teachers’
Fine Fund.
3. All fines imposed on teachers of aided or
government schools to shall be deducted from their salaries
and shall be withdrawn from the Treasury quarterly and
deposited in the Post Office Savings Bank to the credit of the
account styled “The Teachers' Fine Fund”
4. No sum of money shall be withdrawn from the
account except on the signed order of the Chief Education
Officer.
5. The Chief Education Officer may invest the fund or
any portion thereof in any security approved by the Minister.
6. The Chief Education Officer may utilise the fund or
any portion thereof for the provision and maintenance of
books and other publications for the Education Department
Library or for the provision and maintenance of equipment or
grounds for physical training and games or for any other
purpose which the Minister determines is for the benefit or in
the interests of the teachers or pupils of aided or government
schools.
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Account to be
audited
annually and
submitted to
the Minister.
7. An account of the receipts and payments made up
to 31st December, together with the Post Office Savings Bank
Book and all vouchers shall be submitted not later than the
31st January to the Director of Audit for audit. The audited
statement shall then be laid before the Minister.
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Nt. 17/10/1938 BLAIR SCHOLARSHIPS REGULATIONS
made under section 54
Citation.
Conditions for
award of
scholarships.
Number of
scholarships.
Candidate to be
of good
character.
Other
conditions of
eligibility.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Blair
Scholarships Regulations.
2. In and after 1940 Blair Scholarships will be awarded
under the conditions set out in these Regulations.
3. One “Blair Scholarship” shall be competed for each
year.
4. Every candidate shall satisfy the Trustees as to
general character and conduct.
5. A Blair Scholarship may be held by any boy or girl
who has been a pupil at a government or an aided primary
school for not less than two years immediately preceding the
first day of the test examination, and who is under 12 years of
age on the 31st May in the year of the examination, and has
had his or her usual place of residence in Guyana—
(a) if a native of Guyana, for a period of
not less than three years immediately
preceding the first day of the
examination; and
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Test
examination.

Trustees to
award
scholarship.
Value and
tenure of
scholarship.

Payment of
school fees.
Scholarship not
to be held with
any other
scholarship,
etc.

Supervision of
scholars.
(b) if not a native of Guyana, for a period
of not less than five years
immediately preceding the first day of
the examination.
6. The test examination for the scholarship shall be
fixed by the Trustees from time to time.
7. The award of the scholarship shall be made by the
Trustees.
8. The scholarship shall be of the value of $48 per year
for five years and shall be tenable at any secondary school
approved by the Trustees. Extension of the scholarship for
one year may be sanctioned at the discretion of the Trustees.

9. The sum due in respect of each scholarship shall be
paid in three equal terminal instalments. The Trustees shall
deduct from each instalment all amounts due for school fees
and pay these direct to the principal of the approved school.
Any balance of the instalments remaining in hand after
payment of such fees shall be paid by the Trustees to the
parent or guardian of the scholar.
10. No boy or girl who holds any other scholarship or
is in receipt of any other aid towards the cost of his or her
education which is administered by the Education
Department or by any other public department or officer shall
the same time hold a Blair Scholarship.
11. Every Blair Scholar shall be under the general
supervision of the Trustees to whom the parent or guardian
of each scholar shall send at the end of each term a certificate
of good conduct and satisfactory progress from the principal
of the school attended. Failure to obtain such a certificate
may, at the discretion of the Trustees, entail a suspension of
all the rights and privileges of a scholar, for one or more
terms, and two consecutive failures to obtain such a certificate
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shall entail forfeiture of the scholarship if the Trustees so
decide.
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CARNEGIE SCHOOL OF HOME ECONOMICS
REGULATIONS
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
REGULATION
1. Citation.
2. Change of name of institution.
3. Control and management.
4. Age on admission.
5. Examination of candidates prior to admission.
6. Fees.
7. Award of scholarships and exhibitions.
8. Curriculum and courses of instruction.
9. Control of the Principal.
10. Ordinary vacations.
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Reg. 14/12/1939
7/`947, 20/1947
23/1951,
25/1955
26/1958
CARNEGIE SCHOOL OF HOME ECONOMICS
REGULATIONS
made under section 54
Citation.
[Reg.26/1958]
Change of
name of
institution.
[Reg. 26/1958]
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Carnegie
School of Home citation. Economics Regulations.
2. The institution heretofore known as “the Carnegie
Trade School for Women,” which has been established in the
City of Georgetown out of funds provided by the Carnegie
Corporation of New York and which is now maintained out
of moneys provided by Parliament for the purposes of
Blair Scholarships Regulations
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Control and
management.
[Reg. 26/1958]

Age on
admission.
[Reg. 20/1947
25/1955]
Examination of
candidates
prior to
admission.
[Reg. 23/1951
education shall henceforth be known as “The Carnegie School
of Home Economics.”
3. (1) The control and management of the Carnegie
School of Home Economics shall be vested in a Board of
Governors hereinafter referred to as “the Board.”
(2) The Board shall consist of not less than six and
of not more than nine members.
(3) The Chief Education Officer shall, ex officio, be a
member and the Chairman of the Board.
(4) The Principal of the Carnegie School of Home
Economics, hereinafter referred to as “the Principal,” shall be
a member of the Board, but she shall not have the right to
vote on questions under consideration by the Board.
(5) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), every member
of the Board shall be appointed by the Minister, and shall
hold office for two years from the date of his appointment
and shall be eligible for re-appointment.
(6) Five members (including the presiding
member) shall form a quorum.
4. No candidate shall be admitted until she has
attained the age of 15 years:
Provided that the Principal shall have the power, in
special circumstances, to admit candidates who have not
attained this age, but in no circumstances shall a candidate be
admitted under 14 years of age.
5. (1) All candidates will be required to undergo a test
examination before admission, such test to be conducted by
the Principal.
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Fees.
[Reg.26/1958]
Award of
scholarships
and
exhibitions.

Curriculum
and courses of
instruction.
[Reg. 23/1951]
(2) The candidates will be examined in General
Knowledge, English, Arithmetic and Needlework and at a
personal interview with the Principal.
(3) The date or dates on which the examination
will be held shall be advertised in the Gazette from time to
time.
6. (1) Each candidate for the three years’ course shall,
before admission, pay an entrance fee of one dollar and
thereafter a terminal fee of two dollars. Each candidate, before
admission, will also be required to provide herself with such
uniform as may be prescribed by the Principal.
(2) No fees shall be charged for teachers or
students of the Teachers’ Training College who attend the
special courses referred to in regulation 8(2).
(3) The fees to be charged for the special classes to
be arranged for the general public, referred to in regulation
8(2) shall be fixed from time to time by the Board on the
recommendations of the Principal.
7. (1) Scholarships and exhibitions may be awarded to
candidates on the results of the examination for admission to
the School or on the recommendation of the Principal, and
approved by the Board.
(2) The number of scholarships and exhibitions
and the value of such scholarships and exhibitions shall be
fixed, from time to time, by the Board.
8. (1) The curriculum shall provide for a three years’
course and shall include cooking, housekeeping and
marketing, elementary dietetics, elementary hygiene, laundry
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Control of the
Principal.

Ordinary
vacations.
[Reg. 7/1947]
work, needlework and dress-making.
(2) Special courses shall be provided for students
of the Teachers’ Training College and for teachers in primary
schools and, where practicable, evening classes will be held
for members of the general public.
9. The Principal shall be in complete control of the
internal administration of the School.
10. In addition to all public holidays the School shall
be closed for two to three weeks at Christmas, two to three
weeks at Easter and five to six weeks during the period July
to September. These vacations may be changed to other
periods at the discretion of the Board, so however that no
change shall be made which would permit the School to be
kept open continuously for more than four months.
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EDUCATION CODE REGULATIONS
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS
REGULATION PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. Citation.
2. Interpretation.
3. School year.
4. Duties and powers of education officers.
PART II CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOLS
5. Religious denominations and governing bodies.
6. Nomination of managers by governing bodies;
powers of managers.
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7. Persons who may not serve on governing bodies or as
managers.
8. Obligation of managers to visit schools.
PART III SCHOOL PREMISES, LATRINES, EQUIPMENT
9. Requirements regarding floor space, etc.
10. Use of churches as schools.
11. School grounds.
12. Water supply.
13. Latrines.
14. Removal, erection, and reconstruction of schools.
PART IV GRANTS
15. Grants for buildings, etc.
16. Provision of furniture and educational Supplies.
(1) Supply of furniture, equipment, etc.
(2) Cleanliness of furniture, etc.
17. Grants for teaching East Indian languages.
18. Grants for teachers’ salaries.
19. Furnishing of claims, accounts and vouchers.
20. Grants dependent on amount provided by
Parliament.
21. Application for grants.
22. Approval of grants.
23. New schools.
24. Withholding of grants.
25. Withdrawal of grants.
PART V NUMBER OF TEACHERS AND GRANTS FOR THEIR SALARIES
26. Number of teachers and conditions of grants.
27. Salaries to be prescribed.
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28. Removal expenses of teachers.
PART VI CERTIFICATION, EMPLOYMENT, AND DISCIPLINE OF
TEACHERS
29. Teachers’ certificates of competency.
30. (1) Certificate examinations.
(3) Certificate of character and fee for examination.
(4) Needlework examination fee.
(5) Age limit for examination.
31. Temporary certificates.
32. Permanent certificates.
33. Provisional certificates.
34. Grant of third class certificates to holders of
provisional certificates.
35. Grant of third class certificates to uncertificated
teachers.
36. Record of service of teachers.
37. Certificates of character and physical fitness required
from teachers.
38. Disqualification on account of disease.
39. Employment of teachers.
40. Letters of appointment.
41. Transfer of teachers.
42. Salaries of teachers transferred.
43. (1) Termination of teacher's employment.
(2) Manager to be furnished with information
respecting teachers.
44. Qualifications of teachers as to age.
45. [Deleted by Act No. 1 of 1975].
46. Restrictions of teachers engaging in business, etc.
47. Discipline of teachers.
48. (1) Leave of absence of teachers.
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PART VII PUPIL TEACHERS AND JUNIOR TEACHERS
49. Pupil teachers.
50. (1) Eligibility of candidates for appointment as pupil
teachers.
(4) Appointment of candidates who hold certain
certificates as pupil teachers of the third or fourth
year.
51. Age limit for employment as pupil teachers.
52. Annual examination.
53. Instruction of pupil teachers.
54. Junior teachers.
PART VIII GENERAL ORGANISATION OF SCHOOLS
55. Divisions in schools.
56. Exclusion of pupils on account of disease.
57. Temporary closing of schools.
58. School days and hours.
59. School holidays.
PART IX ADMISSION AND ATTENDANCE OF PUPILS
60. Admission of pupils.
61. Proof of age of child.
62. Re-admission of pupils.
63. Transfer of pupils.
64. Employment of pupils as teachers forbidden.
65. Prizes and certificates for regular attendance.
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PART X COURSE OF INSTRUCTION; EXAMINATIONS AND
INSPECTIONS
REGULATION
67. Religious observances and instruction.
68. Freedom of worship.
69. Training of character.
70. Course of secular instruction.
71. Periodical examinations.
72. Primary School Certificate Examination.
73. Primary School Needlework Certificate Examination.
74. Inspection.
75. Reports of inspections.
76. Classification of schools after inspection.
77. Visits of authorised persons to schools.
78. Provisions for enforcing requirements.
PART XI BRANCH SCHOOLS, NURSERY SCHOOLS, CONTINUATION
SCHOOLS, AND SCHOOLS IN REMOTE AREAS
79. Branch schools.
80. Minimum average attendance.
81. Nursery schools and continuation schools.
82. (1) Schools in remote areas.
(2) Salaries of head teachers.
(5) Salaries of assistant teachers.
(6) Supply of furniture and stationery.
PART XII REGISTERS, RECORDS, AND RETURNS
83. (1) List of registers, records, etc., to be kept.
(3) Preservation of registers, etc.
84. Log Book.
85. Admission and withdrawal register of pupils.
86. Pupils' attendance register.
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87. Marking of pupils' attendance register.
88. Teachers' attendance register.
89. Absence of teachers.
90. Time-table.
91. Scheme of work.
92. Records of work and notes of lessons.
93. Punishment book.
94. Corporal punishment
95. Correspondence.
96. Returns, statistics, entries for examinations, etc.
SCHEDULE—Scheme of work for course of secular
instruction.
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Reg. 17/1940
37/1943
10/1944
14/1944
43/1945
49/1945,
1/1946
16/1947
30/1948
7/1949,
17/1950
2/1952
4 of 1972
1 of 1975
EDUCATION CODE REGULATIONS
made under section 54

Citation.

PART I PRELIMINARY
1. These Regulations may be cited for all purposes as
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Interpretation.
[Reg. 1/1946
30/1948]
2. In these Regulations—
"average attendance" means the number found by dividing
the total number of attendances made by pupils during
the school year by the number of school sessions during
that period: Provided that in calculating the average
attendance it shall be within the discretion of the
manager to make a reduction of ten per cent of the total
number of sessions, and the attendances made at such
sessions, and such further reduction on account of
abnormal climatic or health conditions as may be
approved by the Chief Education Officer;
"certified teacher" means a teacher who holds a certificate of
competency issued by the Chief Education Officer under
these regulations;
"the Council" means the National Council of Education
established by the Act;
"education officer" includes senior education officer,
education officer and assistant education officer;
"governing body" includes the governing body of a religious
denomination and a body constituted under regulation 5
and recognised under regulation 5;
"manager" includes all those who have the management of
any aided school;
"primary" means and includes the expression "elementary";
"school" means a school or division or department of a school,
the managers of which receive any grant-in-aid from
public funds, and at which primary education is the
principal part of the education given, but does not
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School year.

Duties and
powers of
education
officers.

Religious
denominations
and governing
bodies.
"teacher" includes everyone who forms part of the
educational staff of a school;
"trained" in relation to a certificated teacher means the
completion of a course of training at an institution for the
training of teachers in any part of the Commonwealth
which is recognised by the Government thereof, or at an
institution recognised by the Chief Education Officer in
any foreign country, by a person who has been granted a
teacher's certificate of competency under these
Regulations other than a certificate of the third class.
3. The school year, for the purposes of school work
and of calculating average attendance and other statistics and
returns required under these Regulations, shall, except in
special cases approved by the Chief Education Officer, begin
on the 1st September and end on the 31st August.
4. Any duty or power relating to visits of inspection
under this code which may be performed or exercised by the
Chief Education Officer may be performed or exercised by an
education officer.
PART II CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT OF SCHOOLS
5. (1) The governing bodies already recognised shall
continue to be so recognised.
(2) The Chief Education Officer may, with the
approval of the Minister, recognise the governing body of any
denomination which may in future apply for recognition.
(3) Where a religious denomination which has not
a governing body or where any person desires recognition,
such denomination or such person shall seek some
responsible member or members of the community to form
with it or him a body, which may apply for recognition in the
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managers by
governing
bodies; powers
of managers.
same manner as a governing body of a religious
denomination.
(4) The Chief Education Officer may, with the
approval of the Minister, withdraw recognition from a
governing body which fails to carry out the terms of the
Education Act or of these Regulations.
(5) Every governing body shall appoint a
correspondent for the transaction of business on its behalf
with the Chief Education Officer.
(6) All changes in the membership of any
governing body shall be notified forthwith to the Chief
Education Officer by the correspondent of the governing
body.
(7) "Recognised" in this regulation means
recognised as being the authority, body or persons
responsible for the control and management of aided schools.
6. (1) Every governing body shall nominate one or
more persons to be manager or managers of each of its
schools, and may delegate to such manager or managers any
of its powers in regard to such school, except the appointment
or termination of appointment of head teachers and first
assistant teachers:
Provided that the governing body shall inform the Chief
Education Officer in writing of the powers so delegated.
(2) Nothing contained in these regulations shall
relieve a governing body of its responsibilities in all financial
and other matters under the Education Act.
(3) If there is more than one manager of a school
the governing body shall nominate one of them to transact
business with the Commission and the Chief Education
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Persons who
may not serve
on governing
bodies or as
managers.

Obligation of
managers to
visit schools.

Requirements
regarding floor
space, etc.
Officer.
7. No teacher while employed as such, nor, except
with the special permission of the Minister, any other person
who derives any emolument or financial benefit from public
funds provided by Parliament in aid of education shall be a
manager of a school or a member of a governing body.
8. A manager shall visit each school under his charge
at least once a month, and shall examine and sign the
admission and withdrawal register of pupils and the
attendance registers of pupils and teachers and shall record
the results of his visit in the log book:
Provided that in the case of schools far removed from the
residence of the manager or difficult of access the Chief
Education Officer after consultation with the Committee may
approve of less frequent visits.
PART III SCHOOL PREMISES, LATRINES, EQUIPMENT
9. (1) Every school shall provide not less than 10
superficial feet of floor space and 100 cubic feet or air space
for each child in average attendance, during the preceding
school year, and the lowest part of the roof (or ceiling) of any
schoolroom shall be not less than 10 feet above the floor.
(2) (a) Covered galleries which are
unpartitioned from the main building
and are not less than 10 feet wide and
10 feet high may be taken into account
in calculating the floor space and air
space;
(b) covered galleries which are
partitioned from the main building
and which are not less than 15 feet
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Use of churches
as schools.

School
grounds.

Water Supply.


Latrines.
wide and 10 feet high may be taken
into account in calculating the floor
space and air space:
Provided that covered galleries erected prior to the
coming into force of these regulations may, with the approval
of the Chief Education Officer, be taken into account in
calculating the floor space and air space.
(3) All zinc roofs shall be "close boarded."
(4) Buildings shall be kept in good repair, clean,
well ventilated, and in a proper sanitary condition.
10. No church or chapel shall be used as a school
without the sanction of the Chief Education Officer except in
the case of schools placed upon the aided list prior to the 31st
December, 1918.
11. (1) Every school placed upon the aided list after
the coming into force of these regulations shall be provided,
unless otherwise approved by the Chief Education Officer,
with adequate playground accommodation within or closely
adjoining the school precincts, i.e. not less than 30 square feet
per child.
(2) The grounds adjoining all school buildings
shall be properly fenced. All grounds shall be drained,
levelled, and kept free of all bush, scrub, litter and rubbish of
all kinds. All fences shall be kept in good repair.
12. Where artesian well water is available, a container
of adequate size shall be kept in each school. Where artesian
well water is not available, a vat or tank shall be provided for
the storage and collection of rain water.
13. (1) Every school shall be provided with properly
constructed latrines of a pattern approved by the Central
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erections, and
reconstruction
of school.
Grants for
buildings, etc.,
[4 of 1972]
Board of Health. These shall be erected as far as possible from
the school buildings. Wherever space permits separate
latrines for boys and girls shall be erected in different parts of
the school grounds.
(2) The number of latrines for each school shall be
at the rate of one latrine for every 40 pupils or part of every 40
pupils in average attendance and shall be distributed between
the sexes in proportion to their numbers:
Provided that where a school has 50 pupils or under in
average attendance there shall be one latrine for each sex.
14. (1) No school shall be removed from one site to
another without the sanction of the Chief Education Officer
previously obtained.
(2) The plan of every school building to be erected
or reconstructed after the coming into force of these
Regulations shall be submitted to the Chief Education Officer
for approval before the work is commenced.
(3) Every school built after the coming into force of
these regulations, shall provide a room for the preparatory
division, and one for the use of the staff, when in the opinion
of the Chief Education Officer such rooms are necessary.
PART IV GRANTS
15. Out of moneys provided by Parliament the Chief
Education Officer shall pay a grant-in-aid to each governing
body at such rate as the Minister may from time to time
prescribe by notice published in the Gazette for each of the
following purposes—
(a) for providing and maintaining
suitable buildings, outhouses and
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furniture and
educational
supplies.
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play grounds for schools of the
governing body;
(b) for the maintenance of clean and
sanitary latrines which shall be the
duty of the head-teacher of each
school;
(c) for the maintenance and upkeep of
each school garden established by the
schools of the governing body; and
(d) for providing tools, appliances and
materials for the teaching of
needlework and for the teaching of
some special form of handicraft in
respect of each school in which the
Chief Education Officer is satisfied
that regular and proper instruction is
being given.
16. (1) Out of moneys provided by Parliament and in
accordance with such rate as the Minister may from time to
time prescribe by notice published in the Gazette, the Chief
Education Officer shall provide and issue to a governing body
in respect of each of its school, such furniture, equipment,
apparatus, materials, books, stationery and other educational
supplies as he considers necessary for the efficient working of
the school:
Provided that if in the opinion of the Chief Education
Officer it is not convenient to issue any of such educational
supplies, the Chief Education Officer may pay to the
governing body a block grant to the value thereof.
(2) All furniture, equipment, apparatus and
materials which are in a school shall be kept clean and in
good order, and shall be marked with the name of the school.
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Grants for
teaching East
Indian
languages.

Grants for
teachers’
salaries

Furnishing of
claims,
accounts and
vouchers.
17. (1) The Chief Education Officer may, out of the
sums provided for the purpose by Parliament, pay to a
governing body a grant for the teaching of East Indian
languages to pupils and to enable teachers and pupil teachers
to qualify as teachers of East Indian languages.
(2) When children of East Indian descent cannot
easily obtain, at an aided school instruction in an East Indian
language, the Chief Education Officer may out of moneys
provided by Parliament pay grants for the teaching of East
Indian languages to schools not otherwise on the list of aided
schools.
18. From the sums voted for the purpose by
Parliament, the Chief Education Officer shall pay to each
governing body grants in respect of the salaries of teachers in
accordance with the regulations contained in Part V.
19. (1) All claims for grants payable under these
Regulations shall be made in writing to the Chief Education
Officer in a form approved by him.
(2) The governing body or the manager, if duly
authorised, shall certify the correctness of all claims for
salaries and other grants.
(3) Every governing body which receives any grant
under these Regulations shall cause to be furnished to the
Chief Education Officer a detailed account of the expenditure
of the grant duly certified and supported by vouchers. In the
case of grants for teachers' salaries and for latrines accounts
shall be rendered monthly supported by receipts from the
teachers for their salaries and vouchers for the expenditure of
the latrine grant.
(4) Any grant or any part thereof which has not
been paid by the Chief Education Officer at the end of the
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dependent on
amount
provided by
Parliament.

Application for
grants.

Approval of
grants.
[Reg.37/1943]
financial year by reason of the failure of any governing body
to comply with this regulation shall lapse.
20. The payment of all grants is dependent on the
amount provided annually for that purpose by Parliament
and nothing in these Regulations shall be regarded as
constituting a right to or in any such grant.
21. (1) A governing body may apply to the Chief
Education Officer for a grant in respect of a new school or for
a full grant in respect of a school aided under regulation 82.
(2) If any such school is within a radius of three
miles of an aided school, the Chief Education Officer shall
insert a notice of the application in the Gazette and forward a
copy of such notice to the governing body of the aided school.
22. (1) When an application for aid is made under the
preceding regulation, the governing body shall produce such
evidence as may be called for to show—
(a) that the school is necessary, according
to the needs of the district and of the
denomination;
(b) that the requirements of these
Regulations have been complied with;
(c) that the average daily attendance at
the school for the six months prior to
the date of application has been not
less than 101 in Georgetown or New
Amsterdam, and not less than 51 in
any other district.
(2) If a grant is not approved, the reason therefor
shall be communicated to the applicant.

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New schools.
Withholding of
grants
Withdrawal of
grants.


Number of
teachers and
conditions of
grants.
[4 of 1972]

Salaries to be
prescribed.
[4 of 1972]

(3) If a grant is approved for a new school the
Chief Education Officer shall determine the average
attendance from the data in his possession.
23. New schools are established at the risk of the
founder and their establishment shall not create any right or
claim to a grant under these Regulations.
24. The Chief Education Officer may at any time
withhold the payment of any grant, or portion thereof, to any
school which in his opinion has ceased to be efficient or
otherwise to fulfil any of the requirements of these
Regulations. Before doing so, he shall send to the governing
body a statement showing in what respect the school has
fallen below the standard required, or otherwise failed to
fulfil the requirements of these Regulations, and such
statement shall be laid before the Council at the first
opportunity.
25. The Chief Education Officer may after consultation
with the Council and with the approval of the Minister and
subject to at least six months' notice being given to the
governing body concerned withdraw from any school any
grant or any portion thereof.
PART V NUMBER OF TEACHERS AND GRANTS FOR THEIR SALARIES
26. The number of teachers in respect of whose
salaries grants may be paid to the governing bodies of
schools, and the conditions subject to which such grants may
be paid shall be prescribed by the Minister from time to time
by notice published in the Gazette.
27. The salaries of teachers of a school shall be in
accordance with such scales and subject to such conditions as
may be prescribed by the Minister from time to time by notice
published in the Gazette.
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Removal
expenses of
teachers.


Teachers’
certificates of
competency.

Certificate
examinations.
28. The Chief Education Officer may approve of the
refund of reasonable removal expenses to any teacher who is
transferred either temporarily or permanently from one
school to another except where the teacher—
(a) is transferred permanently and
becomes eligible for increased
emoluments thereby; or
(b) is transferred at his own request; or
(c) is transferred as a penalty under the
Act or these Regulations.
PART VI CERTIFICATION, EMPLOYMENT AND DISCIPLINE OF
TEACHERS
29. (1) Every head teacher and every certificated
assistant teacher shall be required to hold a certificate of
competency (hereinafter called a certificate)
(2) Certificates shall be of three classes—first,
second, and third, and may be either temporary or
permanent.
(3) The possession of a certificate of whatever class
or character shall not entitle a teacher to salary under
regulation 27 until the holder has been appointed one of the
teachers whose employment is authorised under regulation
26.
30. (1) Examinations for certificates shall be held from
time to time as directed by the Chief Education Officer and
shall be conducted by a board of examiners.
(2) A syllabus of the subjects of examination and
rules governing the examination shall be issued from time to
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Certificate of
character and
fee for
examination.
Needlework
examination
fee.
Age limit for
examination.

Temporary
certificates.
[Reg.37/1943
49/1945]
time by the Chief Education Officer.
(3) Each candidate for examination shall satisfy the
Chief Education Officer that he is of good character and shall
be required to pay a fee of $1.50.
(4) A woman teacher may present herself for
examination in needlework only. The fee for such
examination shall be fifty cents.
(5) Without the special sanction of the Chief
Education Officer no person who has not attained the age of
19 years may enter for the teachers’ certificate examination,
except a pupil teacher who has passed the examination for
pupil teachers of the fourth year.
31. (1) The Chief Education Officer may grant a
temporary certificate to any person who is a Commonwealth
citizen by birth or naturalisation and who—
(a) satisfies the board of examiners; or
(b) holds a certificate from an institution
for the training of teachers in any part
of the Commonwealth which is
recognised by the Government
thereof; or
(c) holds a teacher's certificate from the
Government of any part of the
Commonwealth; or
(d) has taken a degree at a university in
any part of the Commonwealth; or
(e) holds the school certificate of the
Oxford and Cambridge Schools'
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Examination Board or the Cambridge
Local Examinations Syndicate with
credits in five subjects including
English and Mathematics or the
London University or Cambridge
Local Examination Higher School
Certificate, or has passed the
Matriculation or Intermediate Degree
Examinations of a university in any
part of the Commonwealth; and
(f) satisfies the Chief Education Officer
that he is of good character.
(2) A person who satisfies the board of examiners
shall be entitled to a certificate according to the class in which
he has been placed.
(3) A person who has taken a degree at a
university in any part of the Commonwealth shall be entitled
to a Class I certificate and a person who has passed the
Intermediate Degree Examination or the Higher School
Certificate Examination shall be entitled to a Class II
certificate.
(4) The Chief Education Officer may also grant a
temporary certificate, in exceptional circumstances, to any
person whether a Commonwealth citizen or not, where he is
satisfied that the applicant is academically qualified, has
undergone a course of training as a teacher accepted by him,
and possesses outstanding teaching ability.
(5) A teacher to whom a temporary certificate is
granted by virtue of the qualification mentioned in paragraph
(1) (d) or (e) shall present himself for examination in the
principles of education and the practice of teaching at the first
teachers' certificate examination subsequently held in
Guyana:
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certificates.
[Reg. 37/1942]
Provided that—
(a) if the date of the examination falls
within six months of the date of grant
of the certificate, the teacher may
present himself at the next succeeding
examination;
(b) if any such teacher fails to pass the
said examination within three years
after the date of the grant of the
certificate, the certificate may be
withdrawn.
32. (1) A teacher shall not be eligible for a permanent
certificate until he has—
(a) been examined by a medical board
and certified to be physically fit to
perform all the duties of a teacher;
(b) held a temporary certificate for not
less than two years;
(c) produced evidence of good character
during that period;
(d) passed a written examination in the
principles of education and the
practice of teaching accepted by the
Chief Education Officer as of a
suitable standard; and
(e) satisfied the Chief Education Officer
of his ability to teach classes of pupils
in any of the subjects of the primary
school curriculum and of his fitness in
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certificates.



Grant of third
class
certificates to
holders of
provisional
certificates
all respects to hold a teacher's
certificate.
(2) Should a teacher fail to qualify for a permanent
certificate, he may with the approval of the Chief Education
Officer continue to hold a temporary certificate of the class for
which he has qualified by examination, and to receive the
salary prescribed by these regulations for a teacher who holds
that class of certificate.
33. (1) The Chief Education Officer shall have power
to issue a provisional certificate to any person who, in his
opinion, may be properly employed as a teacher in charge of
a school, including a branch school, or of a division of a
school which is housed in a separate building.
(2) A teacher to whom a provisional certificate is
issued shall present himself for examination at the first
certificate examination subsequently held in Guyana:
Provided that if the date of the examination falls within
six months of the date of issue of the provisional certificate,
the teacher may present himself at the next succeeding
examination but not later.
(3) A provisional certificate may be withdrawn if
the holder fails to pass the certificate examination.
34. (1) The Chief Education Officer may grant a
certificate of the third class without examination to the holder
of a provisional certificate who for ten consecutive years
immediately preceding his application has to the knowledge
of the Chief Education Officer satisfactorily performed the
duties of a teacher in charge of a school including a branch
school, or a division of a school which is housed in a separate
building:
Provided that in remote localities five years may be
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class
certificates to
uncertificated
teachers.

Record of
service of
teachers.

Certificates of
character and
physical fitness
required from
teachers
[1 of 1975]
regarded as sufficient.
(2) The holder of a certificate so granted shall be
employed only in such schools as may be approved by the
Chief Education Officer.
35. The Chief Education Officer may grant a certificate
of the third class to any uncertificated teacher who, in his
opinion, has served meritoriously during a period of not less
than twenty years.
36. The Chief Education Officer shall keep a record of
the service of every teacher in which shall be entered the
teacher's date of birth, qualification, appointments held, and
such other particulars as the Chief Education Officer may
from time to time consider necessary.
37. (1) Before any person is appointed as a teacher for
the first time, he shall satisfy the Commission that he is of
good character and shall produce a certificate from a
Government medical officer that he is physically fit for
employment as a teacher.
(2) If at any time the Chief Education Officer
considers it desirable in the interests of the school that a
teacher should be examined by a Government medical officer,
he may request in writing any Government medical officer to
make such examination, and the said officer shall thereupon
make the same free of charge and shall report the result to the
Chief Education Officer. Any teacher refusing to submit to
such examination shall be guilty of a breach of these
Regulations.
(3) If in the opinion of a governing body or the
Commission or both, it is considered that the inefficiency of a
teacher is in any way attributable to ill-health, then on the
recommendation of the governing body or the Commission,
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Disqualification
on account of
disease.

Employment of
teachers
[1 of 1975]
c.39:07

Letters of
appointment.
[1 of 1975]
or both, the teacher concerned may be instructed by the
Commission to attend a medical board appointed by the
Chief Medical Officer at the time and place appointed. Any
teacher refusing to submit to such an examination shall be
guilty of a breach of these Regulations.
38. A teacher in any school may be required to
produce a medical certificate to the satisfaction of the
manager that the teacher's attendance at the school is not
likely to be a source of contagion or infection.
39. The appointment, terms of employment,
promotion, transfer, employment of teachers shall rest with
the Commission acting in pursuance of the Teaching Service
Commission Act.
40. (1) The terms of appointment of a teacher shall be
embodied in a letter of appointment from the Commission
but, in the case of the appointment of a teacher on transfer not
involving promotion from one aided school to another aided
school under the control and management of the same
governing body, the letter of appointment shall be issued by
the governing body.
(2) Every letter of appointment containing a
teacher's terms of employment, shall—
(a) state the period of notice in writing
which is necessary on either side to
terminate the teacher's employment,
or to effect a transfer from one aided
school to another such school which
in the case of a head teacher, other
than a head teacher holding a
provisional certificate, shall be three
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(b) state any duties in regard to the
giving of religious instruction in the
school which are to be performed by
the teacher in addition to the duties
required of him by section 27 of the
Act.
(3) No letter of appointment shall contain anything
contrary to these Regulations.
41. (1) (a) Any teacher may apply in writing to
the governing body of the school in
which he is employed for transfer to a
school under the same governing
body;
(b) a governing body may grant or, with
the approval of the Commission,
reject an application for transfer to a
school under its management;
(c) a teacher desiring to be employed in a
school under the control and
management of another governing
body shall apply in writing to the
Commission and to such governing
body, and upon securing an offer of
such employment shall give to the
governing body having control and
management of the school in which
he is employed the notice prescribed
by regulation 40(2)(a); the governing
body may, in special circumstances
and with the approval of the
Commission, dispense with such
notice.

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Salaries of
teachers
transferred.

Termination of
teacher’s
employment.
[1 of 1975]
(2) (a) Subject to the Act, a governing body
in exercise of its powers of
management of schools thereunder
may transfer any teacher to the staff
of a school under its management
except that in the case of the transfer
of a teacher holding a permanent
certificate not less than three months'
notice of such transfer shall be given
and in the case of the transfer of any
other teacher not less than one
months' notice of such transfer shall
be given.
(b) A head teacher who has been
employed as such in a school or
schools during five or more
successive years may within one
month of receiving notice of transfer
appeal to the Commission which may
uphold or reject such appeal.
(3) Unless in the opinion of the Chief Education
Officer, the interest of the school or schools requires
otherwise, a head teacher shall be transferred only at the
beginning of a school year and an assistant teacher only at the
beginning of a school term.
42. Any teacher who is transferred under regulation
41 shall of transfer be paid the salary of the post to which he
is transferred as prescribed by these regulations or the salary
which he is receiving at the date of his transfer, whichever
shall be the greater.
43. (1) (a) When a teacher is dismissed under
Part III of the Act, the teacher may
obtain from the Commission a full
statement of the cause of his
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Restriction of
teachers
engaging in
business, etc.
[1 of 1975]

Discipline of
teachers.
[Reg. 37/ 1943
dismissal.
(b) When the employment of a teacher is
terminated otherwise than by
dismissal under section 48 of the Act,
the governing body shall make a
report to the Chief Education Officer,
containing a full statement of the
reasons for the termination of the
employment.
(2) Where the employment of a teacher has been
terminated and any governing body or manager who
contemplates employing him applies to the Chief Education
Officer for information as to the cause of such termination, the
Chief Education Officer shall furnish the manager with a copy
of the report relating thereto.
44. No teacher under the age of twenty-one years shall
be allowed to take charge of a school except in an acting
capacity and then only with the approval of the Chief
Education Officer in writing.
45. [Deleted by Act 1 of 1975]
46. (1) No teacher shall engage in any business or
occupation which, in the opinion of the Commission will
interfere with his duty as a teacher under these Regulations.
(2) A teacher may not act as the editor of any
newspaper nor take part directly or indirectly in the
management thereof except with the permission of the
Commission nor contribute anonymously thereto anything
which is of a political or administrative nature.
47. (1) For any breach of these Regulations, for
improper conduct while in school, for neglect of duty,
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misconduct, inefficiency, unfitness, irregularity, or conduct
unbecoming of a teacher or lack of discipline on the part of
any teacher, the Commission may impose a fine of seventy-
five dollars, or other penalty on the defaulting teacher, but
not until the teacher has been informed of the charge against
him and has been given an opportunity of exculpating
himself.
(2) Where such a breach of the Regulations, or
neglect of duty, misconduct, inefficiency, irregularity or lack
of discipline is discovered by the Chief Education Officer or
his officers or is otherwise brought to his notice, the Chief
Education Officer may inform the governing body of the
school in which the teacher is employed, and thereupon it
shall be the duty of the governing body to investigate the
matter in accordance with paragraph (1) of this regulation
and Part III of the Act.
(3) All fines imposed under this section shall be
paid into a fine fund to be in charge of the Chief Education
Officer and to be disbursed subject to rules to be made for
that purpose by the Commission with the approval of the
Minister.
(4) If a teacher is interdicted from duty in
accordance with section 49(1) of the Act he shall be allowed to
receive one-half of his salary and if the proceedings against
the teacher do not result in his dismissal or the termination of
his employment or the suspension or cancellation of his
certificate he shall be entitled to the full salary he would have
received if he had not been interdicted:
Provided that if a teacher is convicted on a criminal
charge he shall not receive any salary from the date of
conviction pending consideration of his case by the
Commission.

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Leave of
absence of
teachers.
[Reg. 14/1944
30/ 1948
7/1949]
48. (1) Every occasion on which a teacher is absent
from school must be entered in the absence report where all
the required particulars must be given. All short leave or
special leave shall be subject to the exigencies of the work of
the schools.
(2) (a) A manager may in case of sudden
emergency grant leave on full pay to
any teacher for urgent private affairs
for any period not exceeding two
days at a time, and for not more than
five school days in any one school
year. A teacher who desires to obtain
such leave shall submit to the
manager as early as possible an
application stating the nature of the
urgent private affairs upon which
such application is based;
(b) the Chief Education Officer in his
discretion, and subject to the
exigencies of the school, may grant
additional leave on full pay entailing
a teacher's absence from school for
urgent private affairs not exceeding
five school days in any school year. A
teacher who desires to obtain such
leave shall submit to the Chief
Education Officer through the
manager as early as possible
beforehand an application stating the
nature of the urgent private affairs
upon which such application is based;
(c) no teacher shall be granted more than
ten days leave on full pay for urgent
private affairs in any school year;
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(d) the Chief Education Officer may, in
his discretion, grant leave of absence
with or without pay to a teacher for
any reasonable cause.
(3) (a) A manager may grant leave on full
pay on account of illness for not more
than three school days in any school
year. If the teacher's absence exceeds
three days, leave must be obtained
from the Chief Education Officer as
hereinafter provided to cover the
entire period of leave;
(b) all applications for sick leave
exceeding a total of three school days
in any school year must be made to
the Chief Education Officer on the
form prescribed by the Chief
Education Officer and supported by a
medical certificate, also on the
prescribed form, from a Government
medical officer, stating the cause,
nature and probable duration of the
illness. The Chief Education Officer
may, in his discretion accept a
certificate from a private medical
practitioner in support of an
application for sick leave, or, in
exceptional circumstances he may
accept other evidence that the teacher
is unfit for duty;
(c) where application has been made
under subparagraph (b), the Chief
Education Officer may grant sick
leave on full pay for a period not
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exceeding one calendar month in any
school year, and may grant an
extension of sick leave on half pay for
an additional two months:
Provided that the Chief Education Officer may grant an
extension of five months on half pay in the case of a teacher
who has had less than one month's sick leave in any one
school year during the three years immediately preceding the
application;
(d) the Chief Education Officer may grant
a teacher with less than one year's
service leave of absence on account of
illness for not more than one calendar
month, and such leave may be
granted on full pay or half pay as the
Chief Education Officer may think fit.
(4) (a) The Chief Education Officer may
grant to any teacher special leave
without pay, for a period to be fixed
according to the circumstances of each
case;
(b) the Chief Education Officer may grant
special leave with full pay to any
teacher who has served meritoriously
for at least seven school years. The
maximum pay issuable shall not
exceed three months' full pay
(exclusive of school holidays).
Teachers who are granted this leave
for the purpose of attending an
approved course of study may have
this extended to six months on
condition that the teacher gives an
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undertaking, in a form approved by
the Chief Education Officer, that he
will return to his employment as a
primary school teacher in Guyana, for
not less than two school years
immediately following the conclusion
of his special leave;
(c) any certificated teacher may be
granted an advance of salary not
exceeding one-third of his annual
salary—
(i) where he desires to spend any
special leave outside Guyana;
or
(ii) where he desires to leave
Guyana during the month of
August in any year, and the
Chief Education Officer is
satisfied that he desires to do so
for educational purposes, and
any such advance of salary as
aforesaid shall be repaid by the
teacher without interest within
two years from the date he
returns to Guyana;
(d) all applications for special leave must
be made through the manager and the
governing body concerned, and must
reach the Chief Education Officer at
least five clear weeks before the leave
is due to begin;
(e) unless with the sanction of the Chief
Education Officer, all special leave
with full pay must be spent outside
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Pupil teachers.

Eligibility of
candidates for
appointment as
pupil teachers.
[Reg. 37/1943]
Guyana.
(5) When a teacher is absent on leave approved by
the Chief Education Officer an interim teacher may be
appointed at a salary to be fixed by the Chief Education
Officer according to the circumstances of each case.
(6) The Chief Education Officer may at any time
(and shall, if the teacher so requests) call upon a teacher to
present himself for examination to a duly constituted medical
board with a view to its being ascertained whether the teacher
is physically capable of performing the duties of his
appointment or of any appointment to which it may be
proposed to transfer him.
PART VII PUPIL TEACHERS AND JUNIOR TEACHERS
49. Boys and girls may be employed as pupil teachers
under the conditions hereinafter set forth.
50. (1) To be eligible for appointment as a pupil
teacher a candidate must—
(a) be not less than 14 years of age, or
more than 16 years of age;
(b) hold the Primary School Certificate;
(c) reach the qualifying standard in a
special examination in such subjects
as the Chief Education Officer may
from time to time prescribe (the
examination to be called "the Pupil
Teachers' Appointment
Examination");
(d) be certified by a government medical
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pupil teachers.
Annual
examination.
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officer as physically fit to perform the
duties of a pupil teacher.
(2) In special circumstances and under conditions
approved by the Chief Education Officer, a candidate who is
over 16 years but under 19 years of age may be appointed.
(3) A candidate who has reached the qualifying
standard in the Government County Scholarship Examination
may, on attaining the age of 14 years, be appointed a pupil
teacher of the first year without further examination.
(4) Holders of the Cambridge Junior Certificate or
the Lower Certificate of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools
Examination Board who are under 18 years of age, shall be
eligible for appointment as pupil teachers of the third year;
and holders of School Certificates issued by either of these
examining bodies who are under 19 years of age, shall be
eligible for appointment as pupil teachers of the fourth year.
Holders of the School Certificate of the Oxford and
Cambridge Schools Examination Board or Cambridge Local
Examinations Syndicate with credits in English, Mathematics
and three other subjects, who are under 19 years of age, shall
be eligible for appointment as pupil teachers who have
passed the fourth year examination.
51. A pupil teacher's employment as such shall cease
when he attains the age of 20 years.
52. (1) Pupil teachers shall be examined annually in
such subjects as may be prescribed from time to time by the
Chief Education Officer. The examination shall be called "the
Pupil Teachers' Annual Examination" (hereinafter referred to
as the annual examination).
(2) Every pupil teacher under 19 years of age on
the first day of the annual examination shall present himself
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for the examination appropriate to his year of service, or to
the subsequent year, and any pupil teacher who fails to
qualify at such examination shall cease to be recognised as a
pupil teacher unless such failure is due to any cause which
the Chief Education Officer considers sufficient, in which case
the Commission may approve of the pupil teacher's
employment being continued till the next annual
examination.
(3) Every pupil teacher who has attained the age of
19 years on the first day of the annual examination shall
present himself for the fourth year examination, the passing
of which shall be a condition of employment as an
uncertificated teacher, except in special cases approved by the
Chief Education Officer.
53. (1) Head teachers shall give to every pupil teacher
on the school premises and without cost to the pupil teacher,
instruction for not less than five hours during every week,
before or after the regular school hours. Not more than two
hours of such instruction shall be given on the same day,
except on Saturdays when it may be given for not more than
four hours between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. Such instruction shall
not be continued beyond 5 p.m. on any day.
(2) Every pupil teacher shall be provided with a
book in which he shall enter the lessons that have been given
to him, and the date, hour, and duration of each lesson.
(3) Such entries shall be initialled by the pupil
teacher and countersigned by the head teacher, and the books
shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Chief
Education Officer.
(4) From the moneys provided by Parliament, a
sum of $6 per annum shall be paid to the head teacher of a
school for every pupil teacher whom he has instructed, and
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who passes the annual examination. These payments shall be
made at the end of the month in which the results of the
annual examination are published.
54. (1) Where a sufficient number of pupil teachers is
not available for employment in any school, any person
between the age of 14 and 17 years who, in the opinion of the
Chief Education Officer, has suitable qualifications may be
employed as a junior teacher at a salary of $10 a month; but
the number of junior teachers employed at the same time in
any school shall not exceed two.
(2) Junior teachers shall present themselves for the
following examinations:
(a) the examination for appointment as
pupil teachers if under 16 years of age
on the 1st September in the year of the
examination;
(b) the annual examination for first year
pupil teachers if under 17 years of age
on the 1st September in the year of the
examination;
(c) the annual examination for second
year pupil teachers if over 17 years of
age on the 1st September in the year
of the examination.
(3) The employment of a junior teacher shall be
terminated—
(a) when such teacher attains the age of
18 years;
(b) when a pupil teacher or a more
qualified teacher is available.
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Divisions in
schools.
Exclusion of
pupils on
account of
disease.

Temporary
closing of
schools.

School days
and hours.
PART VIII
GENERAL ORGANISATION OF SCHOOLS
55. (1) Every school shall have four divisions—
preparatory, lower, middle and upper, unless the Chief
Education Officer approves of some other form of
organisation.
(2) In large schools each division may with the
approval of the Chief Education Officer be sub-divided into
two classes—(a) and (b).
56. (1) It shall be the duty of every head teacher to
exclude from the school any child suffering from any
contagious or infectious disease or who comes from a house
where such is known to exist.
(2) Head teachers shall report immediately to the
local sanitary authority in Georgetown and New Amsterdam,
and to the Government medical officer in any other district,
the occurrence of any case of suspected contagious or
infectious disease, at the same time forwarding to the Chief
Education Officer a copy of the report sent.
57. Where in the opinion of the Chief Education
Officer, it is expedient to close temporarily any school, he
shall issue any necessary instructions to the manager and to
the head teacher.
58. (1) Schools shall be kept open from Monday to
Friday inclusive, in each week, except during the holidays
authorised under regulation 59.
(2) The hours of attendance at school shall be five
per diem divided into two sessions—a morning session and an
afternoon session. The morning session shall include an
interval for recreation not exceeding fifteen minutes and the
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holidays.
afternoon session an interval not exceeding ten minutes.
(3) If there are two or more schools within two
miles of each other, the managers concerned shall agree on a
uniform time of opening. Should the managers be unable to
agree the time shall be fixed by the Chief Education Officer.
(4) Pupils of the preparatory division may be
dismissed after two hours' instruction including an interval
for recreation, in the first daily session of the school, and after
one hour's instruction in the second daily session.
(5) The head teacher may keep the pupils of the
upper division for not more than one additional hour of
instruction on any day or days if he so desires, but all
ordinary instruction shall cease by 4 pm and any special
instruction or detention of pupils by 4.30 pm.
(6) The time of a teacher's attendance at school
shall not be limited to the hours of instruction, but may be
extended at the discretion of the head teacher for not more
than one hour after ordinary instruction has ceased.
59. (1) In addition to all public holidays, schools shall
be closed for three weeks at Christmas, two weeks at Easter,
and during the month of August. These holidays may be
changed to other periods:
Provided that all such changes are approved by the Chief
Education Officer beforehand and that ordinarily no change
shall be approved which admits of the school being kept open
continually for more than four months.
(2) The manager may declare special holidays not
exceeding six days in all in any one school year. Notification
of these special holidays shall be sent forthwith to the Chief
Education Officer.

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Admission of
pupils.

Proof of age of
child.
(3) On anniversaries or other special occasions the
Chief Education Officer may declare school holidays either in
a particular district or in the whole of Guyana.
PART IX ADMISSION AND ATTENDANCE OF PUPILS
60. (1) No child shall be refused admission to any
school or dismissed therefrom on account of the religious
persuasion, race, or language of such child or of his parents or
guardian.
(2) If there is sufficient accommodation as required
by these regulations, no child over 6 years and under 14 years
of age shall be refused admission into any school save in the
case of transfer as provided in regulation 63 or dismissed
therefrom on any grounds which in the opinion of the Chief
Education Officer are unreasonable.
(3) No child under 5 years of age shall be
registered as a pupil and no child over 16 years of age shall be
included in the calculation of the average attendance of a
school.
(4) Except with the express approval of the Chief
Education Officer, schools erected before the coming into
force of these regulations shall not enrol more pupils than
fifteen per cent beyond the accommodation as prescribed by
regulation 9, and schools erected after the coming into force of
these Regulations shall not enrol more pupils than ten per
cent beyond the accommodation as prescribed by regulation
9.
61. A head teacher who satisfies the Chief Education
Officer that he is unable to ascertain the correct date of birth
of any pupil, may fill up a form showing the names of the
parents of such a pupil, the district in which he was born and
the approximate date of his birth, and forward the same to the
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Re-admission
of pupils.

Transfer of
pupils.
Chief Education Officer for verification by the Registrar
General. In the event of any birth being untraceable by the
Registrar General and in the absence of birth or baptismal
certificates, it shall be the duty of the Chief Education Officer,
having regard to the appearance of the pupil and the entries
in the school register of admissions, to decide for the purpose
of these regulations the question of age, and his decision shall
be final:
Provided that in the case of a child of East Indian parents
the certificate of the Immigration Agent General shall be
sufficient proof of age.
62. Except for reasons satisfactory to the Chief
Education Officer a pupil absent from school for three
consecutive months shall cease to be considered a pupil of
that school, and if such pupil be subsequently re-admitted he
shall be deemed a new pupil and his name shall be so entered
in the school register of admission.
63. (1) No child shall be transferred from one school to
another unless he (or his parents) produces to the head
teacher of the school to which he seeks admission a transfer
certificate signed by the manager and the head teacher of the
school formerly attended.
(2) A transfer certificate shall state—
(i) name of pupil;
(ii) date of birth (state if verified);
(iii) date of admission;
(iv) division reached, and date of
promotion (or admission) to
such division;
(v) date of last attendance and
cause of leaving;
(vi) number of attendances made
during the current school year;
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Employment of
pupils as
teachers
forbidden.
Prizes and
certificates for
regular
attendance.
(vii) general remarks on conduct
and work.
(3) No certificate shall be refused when applied for
by the parent or guardian in person or in writing.
(4) No transfer certificate shall be issued after
fourteen days from the commencement of each term, except
in the case of removal from one district to another, or in such
other cases as may be approved by the Chief Education
Officer.
(5) Where an order has been issued under the Act
by a magistrate that a child shall attend a particular school,
the head-teacher of that school shall apply for the transfer
certificate to the head teacher of the last school attended by
the pupil.
(6) For the purpose of this regulation all schools in
Georgetown are regarded as being in the same district;
similarly all schools in New Amsterdam, and all country
schools within two miles of each other.
64. No pupil shall be regularly employed as a teacher.
65. Every pupil who makes the maximum number of
attendances in any school year shall be awarded a prize, and
every pupil who makes ninety-five per cent or more of the
maximum number of attendances, but less than the maximum
number shall be awarded a certificate, and those who gain
certificates for three consecutive years shall be eligible for
special prizes:
Provided that in each case the pupil is certified by the
manager and head teacher to have been diligent, well
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Efficient
elementary
instruction.

Religious
observances
and instruction.

Freedom of
worship.

Training of
character.

behaved, and punctual throughout the school year.
66. (1) In Georgetown, New Amsterdam, and Buxton,
and in such other places as the Minister may order, thirty-five
attendances in one month, and in all other places, thirty
attendances in one month, of a child at any school, at least
two of such attendances being on separate Mondays, shall be
deemed to be "efficient elementary instruction."
(2) "Attendance" for the purpose of this regulation,
shall mean presence throughout a session as prescribed under
regulation 58 and fixed by the time-table of the school.
PART X COURSE OF INSTRUCTION; EXAMINATIONS AND
INSPECTIONS
67. Religious observances and instruction in schools
shall conform to the requirements of section 29 of the Act and
the pupils may, at times specified in the time-table approved
by the Chief Education Officer, be taken to a neighbouring
church for any religious observance or instruction.
68. It shall not be required that a pupil shall attend or
abstain from attending any Sunday school or any place of
religious worship or that he shall, or shall not, attend any
religious observance whatever.
69. All reasonable care shall be taken during the work
and conduct of the school to impress upon the pupils the
importance of cheerful obedience to duty, of consideration
and respect for others, and of honour and truthfulness in
word and act, to bring them up in habits of punctuality, and
regular attendance, of good manners and language, of
cleanliness and neatness, and to impress upon them the
dignity of labour, and the necessity for hard work as a
condition of life.

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Course of
secular
instruction.
Schedule.

Periodical
examinations.
Primary School
Certificate
Examination.
[Reg.43/1945]
70. The course of secular instruction shall be in
accordance with the suggested schemes of work in the
Schedule to these Regulations, or such other schemes as may
from time to time be approved by the Chief Education
Officer.
71. The head teacher or other person authorised in
writing by the Chief Education Officer shall hold periodical
examinations of the school.
72. (1) An examination to be called "the Primary
School Certificate Examination" shall be held annually on a
date to be fixed by the Chief Education Officer, at which the
head teacher of any aided school may present pupils who are
not less than twelve years of age on the 1st January, or not
more than sixteen years of age on the 31st July, in the year in
which the examination is held, and who have been pupils of
an aided school for not less than two years immediately
preceding the date of the examination.
(2) All candidates who are eligible under
paragraph (1) and who have made seventy-five per cent of
the maximum attendance as pupils of the upper division of an
aided school during the five terms preceding the examination
shall be presented.
(3) The subjects of the examination shall be
prescribed by the Chief Education Officer and notified by him
in the Gazette not less than nine months before the date of the
examination.
(4) The Chief Education Officer shall issue to every
candidate who produces satisfactory evidence of his
eligibility under this regulation and who reaches the standard
required in the examination a certificate to be called "the
Primary School Certificate."

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Needlework
Certificate
Examination.

Inspection.
[Reg. 16/947]
73. An examination in needlework shall be held
annually on a date to be fixed by the Chief Education Officer
at which any aided school may present girls who are eligible
to sit for the Primary School Certificate Examination. The
Chief Education Officer shall issue to every candidate who
produces satisfactory evidence of her eligibility and who
reaches the standard required in the examination, a certificate
to be called "the Primary School Needlework Certificate."
74. (1) Every school shall be inspected from time to
time for the purpose of determining its state of efficiency.
(2) Where a school is classified under regulation 88
as "poor" or "unsatisfactory" the teachers (other than teachers
who have reached the maximum salaries of their grades) who
in the opinion of the Chief Education Officer are responsible
for the loss of efficiency shall be warned that their future
increments may be stopped after the next inspection. Such a
school shall be inspected again within twelve months and if
the school is again classified as "poor" or "unsatisfactory" the
teachers who in the opinion of the Chief Education Officer are
responsible for the loss of efficiency shall not be given any
further increments until at some future inspection the school
ceases to be so classified.
(3) When a teacher has reached the maximum
salary of his grade and on inspection the normal efficiency of
his school, division or class has not been maintained, he shall
be warned that his salary may be reduced after the next
inspection. Such a school, division or class shall be inspected
again within twelve months, and if the school, division or
class is still below its normal efficiency there shall be
deducted each month from the salary of such teacher a sum
equivalent to his last increment until at some future
inspection the school, division or class regains its normal
efficiency.

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Reports of
inspections.


Classification
of schools after
inspection.
Visits of
authorised
persons to
schools.

(4) The Chief Education Officer may, at any
reasonable time, inspect all books prescribed to be used in
connection with the school.
75. The report of an inspection shall be under the
following of heads:
(a) organisation, discipline, and
instruction;
(b) school records;
(c) condition of premises and
surroundings;
(d) equipment.
76. Schools shall be classified as follows, according to
the standard of their work as shown at an inspection:
(a) excellent;
(b) very good;
(c) good;
(d) fair;
(e) poor;
(f) unsatisfactory.
77. Members of the Cabinet and of the National
Assembly, judges of the Supreme Court, members of the
Council, district commissioners and justices of the peace,
members of the governing body to which the school belongs,
and any other persons authorised by the Minister may visit
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Provisions for
enforcing
requirement.

Branch schools.

Minimum
average
attendance.
Nursery
schools and
any school, and shall have full liberty to examine the school
registers, and to record the results of their visit in the school
log book. Visitors are invited to report the results of their
visits to the Chief Education Officer on a form provided for
the purpose.
78. (1) Upon being satisfied at any time by the reports
of a senior education officer or otherwise that the
requirements of these Regulations are not being the Chief
Education Officer shall give the governing body of the school
concerned written notice to comply with such requirements,
and shall specify a time within which this shall be done. It
shall then be the duty of the governing body to comply with
such requirements and to report in writing to the Chief
Education Officer that this has been done.
(2) If such requirements have not been made good
to the satisfaction of the Chief Education Officer within the
time specified by him, he may then act under regulation 24.
PART XI
BRANCH SCHOOLS, NURSERY SCHOOLS,
CONTINUATION SCHOOLS, AND SCHOOLS IN
REMOTE AREAS
79. (1) A portion of a school the organisation of which
shall be approved by the Chief Education Officer may be
accommodated in separate premises and shall be known as a
"branch school."
(2) No branch school shall be more than three
miles from the main school.
80. The average attendance in a branch school shall be
not less than thirty pupils.
81. Grants may be given to a governing body in
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continuation
schools.
Schools in
remote areas.
[Reg. 17/1950]

Salaries of head
teachers.

respect of a nursery school or a continuation school.
82. (1) The Chief Education Officer may, after
consultation with the Council, in special circumstances and
under conditions to be determined after full consideration of
each case give grants to a governing body for the primary
education of children residing in remote or sparsely
populated places and in places difficult of access.
(2) The head teacher of a school shall be paid a
monthly salary—
(a) on the scale $65 x $5—$80 || x $5—
$100 with an efficiency bar at $80
where the head teacher is a
certificated teacher;
(b) on the scale $50 x $5—$60 || x $5—
$70; with an efficiency bar at $60;
where the head teacher is an
uncertificated teacher
(3) The employment of an uncertificated head
teacher may be terminated if he does not obtain a certificate
within such time as may from time to time be prescribed by
the Chief Education Officer.
(4) Any school which is in receipt of a grant at the
coming into force of these Regulations and which has an
average attendance of less than 12 pupils may continue to
receive a grant of $15 per month, provided that the Chief
Education Officer is satisfied that a school is necessary in that
district, but in future no school shall be eligible for a grant
under this regulation which does not have an average
attendance of at least 12 pupils.

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Salaries of
assistant
teachers.

Supply of
furniture and
stationery.
(5) In a school with an average attendance of over
40 pupils, an assistant teacher shall be employed, and he shall
be paid a monthly salary—
(a) on the scale $45 x $5—$65 where the
assistant teacher is a certificated
teacher;
(b) on the scale $30 x $2.50—$40 where
the assistant teacher is an
uncertificated teacher.
(6) In schools receiving grants under this
regulation the buildings shall be wholly maintained by the
governing bodies but the Chief Education Officer shall, from
the sums provided for the purpose by Parliament provide and
issue to a governing body furniture or other equipment,
stationery and other school requisites according to the
following rate or such other rate as the Minister may from
time to time approve—
(a) in respect of furniture or other
equipment $24 per annum for schools
with an average attendance of 40 and
under; and $30 per annum for schools
with an average attendance of over
40; provided that where owing to
distance or other cause it is, in the
opinion of the Chief Education
Officer, not convenient to issue such
furniture, the Chief Education Officer
may pay to a governing body a block
grant to the value thereof; and
(b) in respect of each pupil in average
attendance at each of the schools,
stationery and other school requisites
at the rate of 12½ cents per annum or
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List of registers
records, etc., to
be kept.
at such a rate as the Minister may
from time to time approve
.
(7) In cases where the Chief Education Officer is
satisfied that any school for a particular year is properly
furnished and equipped, the grant for furniture and
equipment may be issued towards the maintenance of the
building for that year.
(8) Teachers appointed to take charge of such
schools shall be over 20 years of age and such appointments
shall be subject to the approval of the Chief Education Officer.
PART XII REGISTERS, RECORDS, AND RETURNS
83. (1) There shall be kept every school—
(a) a copy of these Regulations and any
amendment thereto;
(b) copies of all Gazette notices and
circulars issued to schools;
(c) a log book or school diary;
(d) a register of admission and
withdrawal of pupils;
(e) transfer certificates;
(f) attendance registers of pupils;
(g) attendance register of teachers;
(h) a book containing such accounts as
the Chief Education Officer may from
time to time prescribe;
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Preservation
of registers,
etc.

Log book.
(i) inventory of school furniture,
equipment, apparatus, and material;
(j) a time table and scheme of work
approved by the Chief Education
Officer;
(k) teachers' notes of lessons and records
of work;
(l) examination question papers, answers
and results;
(m) a punishment book;
(n) any other registers, books, records, or
returns prescribed from time to time
by the Chief Education Officer.
(2) All registers, records, and books shall be kept in
good order and in the manner prescribed by these
Regulations or as approved by the Chief Education Officer.
(3) Attendance registers of pupils and teachers
when completed shall be carefully preserved for at least five
years after the termination of the school year to which they
relate.
(4) Log books and registers of admission shall be
carefully preserved as long as possible as a permanent record
of the school.
84. (1) The log book shall contain a record of any
event of importance connected with the school, such as—
(a) the beginning and end of a school
term, the reason for closing of the
school on all occasions on which it is
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Admission and
withdrawal
register of
pupils.
closed, change of teachers, repairs to
the school, the receiving of circulars,
rules, and other documents;
(b) the absence of any teacher from one
or more sessions or parts thereof,
together with the reason of such
absence, and a statement whether
such teacher has obtained leave of
absence or not, and, if the former,
from whom;
(c) all serious breaches of discipline or
neglect of duty on the part of any
member of the school staff;
(d) a copy of the report of each inspection
of the school;
(e) all interruptions of school work by
severe weather, epidemic, or other
reason; the cause being fully stated in
each case.
(2) No reflections or opinions of a general or
personal character are to be entered in the log book.
85. (1) The register of admission and withdrawal of
pupils shall be kept in a form approved by the Chief
Education Officer and shall show the date of birth, and the
position in the school and complete progress of every pupil,
including those transferred from other schools, giving the
dates and their respective divisions year by year.
(2) When a pupil is admitted, his name and date of
birth shall be entered at once in the admission and
withdrawal register of pupils, and the necessary information
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Pupils’
attendance
register.
entered in each column.
(3) When a pupil is withdrawn, the withdrawal
column of this register shall at once be filled in with all the
necessary information.
86. (1) The attendance registers of pupils shall be
marked every time the school meets, however small the
attendance may be, even if there are no pupils present,
beginning with the first day of the school year and
continuing to the last day thereof.
(2) Adequate time for marking the registers shall
be provided in the time-table, according to the number of
pupils.
(3) The maximum time allowed for marking
registers is fifteen minutes in the morning and fifteen minutes
in the afternoon.
(4) The names of boys shall be entered separately
from those of girls in the register, but wherever possible,
division or class registers shall be kept.
(5) When a pupil has been absent from the school
for three months without notification of withdrawal, an entry
of the fact shall be made in the withdrawal column of the
admission register and the pupil's name shall not be re-
written in the attendance register for the next term.
(6) When a pupil has been withdrawn after
notification of withdrawal given by the parent or guardian in
person or in writing, an entry shall be made at once in the
attendance register by drawing a line in red ink from the last
day the pupil attended to the end of the term.
(7) At the commencement of each term the names
of the pupils shall be entered in the register of attendance
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Marking of
pupils’
attendance
register.
according to divisions or classes, preserving the same order
throughout the year.
(8) When a pupil's name is placed on the
attendance register, a line in ink shall be drawn from the
name across intervening columns to the column where the
first attendance is marked. No vacant space is to be left
between any two names in the same class or division.
87. In marking the pupils' registers of attendance the
following rules shall be observed:
(a) the register must be marked twice
daily during the time set apart in the
time-table for the purpose which shall
be within half-hour of the opening of
each session of the school. In any case
in which, owing to heavy rains, the
attendance is greatly reduced, a
footnote shall be inserted mentioning
such rains;
(b) after the register is closed no pupil's
attendance is to be marked;
(c) the register must be marked in ink,
never in pencil to be inked over
afterwards;
(d) presence must be marked with a / and
absence must be marked clearly and
distinctly with an 0;
(e) there must be no blanks, no dots, no
alterations, and no erasures; if an
error has been made it must be
corrected by a footnote;
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(f) if a pupil, other than a pupil of the
preparatory division leaves the school
within two hours in the morning
session, or within one and a half
hours in the afternoon session, after
the marking of the register, the mark
for presence must be cancelled by
another stroke thus— x ;
(g) the register must be original and not
copied from slates or papers with the
object of keeping it clean or for any
other object;
(h) within the first half-hour of each
session of the school, the number of
attendances recorded on each page
and the total number made by the
whole school, must be entered in the
spaces provided. The number of
attendances made by each pupil
during the week must be entered
every Friday afternoon and by each
pupil at the end of each term during
the first month in the succeeding
term;
(i) on the occasion of a holiday, a line
must be drawn down the whole
length of the column for the day; for
longer periods "holidays" may be
written across the columns;
(j) in schools situated on the banks of
rivers and unapproachable by any
public path, the marking of the
register at the morning session may,
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Teachers’
attendance
register.

Absence of
teachers.
with the approval of the Chief
Education Officer, be carried out
within one hour after the time fixed
for the opening of that session;
(k) the head teacher may appoint certain
assistant teachers to assist in the
marking of the registers, and they
shall be responsible to him for their
accuracy, but the general
responsibility for the manner in which
the registers are kept shall remain
with the head teacher. All corrections
shall be made in the manner
prescribed, and shall be initialled by
him.
88. In the attendance register of teachers each teacher
and pupil teacher must enter the time of his arrival and
departure from school in the morning and afternoon of each
day. If a teacher is absent the whole of a session, then the
head teacher (or teacher in charge in the head teacher's
absence) must enter the word "absent" in the place for the
time of arrival. Teachers shall be in school at least fifteen
minutes before the commencement of each session.
89. (1) Head teachers absent from duty must report
their absence in writing forthwith to the manager, and must
state the reasons for such absence. Assistant teachers and
pupil teachers must similarly report in writing to the head
teacher, or teacher in charge in the head teacher's absence
who will at once inform the manager.
(2) When in the opinion of the Chief Education
Officer the absence of any teacher is not justifiable such
teacher shall not be paid any salary in respect of the period of
such absence.
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Time table.


Scheme of
work

Records of
work and notes
of lessons.

Punishment
book.
Corporal
punishment.
[Reg. 37/1943]
90. A time-table shall be drawn up by the head
teacher on the official form provided and in accordance with
the instructions issued by the Chief Education Officer, and
after approval by the Chief Education Officer shall be hung in
a conspicuous place in the school.
91. (1) A scheme of work covering a year's instruction
shall be drawn up by the head teacher at the beginning of
each school year on the lines of the suggested scheme of work
contained in the Schedule.
(2) Each class teacher shall make a copy of the
portion affecting his class and separate it into three terminal
portions.
92 (1) Records of work in a form approved by the
Chief Education Officer shall be kept for each class, in which
must be entered at the end of each week a concise account of
the work done. Records of work must be inspected and
signed by the head teacher weekly.
(2) Notes of lessons shall be kept by the head
teacher and each member of the staff, to show evidence of
regular and careful preparation of the work planned to be
covered.
93. Whenever corporal punishment is administered, a
statement of the nature and extent of the punishment and the
reason therefor must be entered in the punishment book. All
such entries must be made at the time the punishment is
inflicted.
94. (1) For serious or repeated offences corporal
punishment may be administered by the head teacher or by
an assistant teacher over twenty years of age and authorised
by him.

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Correspon-
dence

Returns
statistics,
entries for
examination,
etc.
(2) Whenever a head teacher authorises an
assistant teacher to administer corporal punishment, it shall
be administered in the presence of the head teacher and
under his direction and on his responsibility.
(3) Corporal punishment for girls shall be
administered by a female teacher or by the head teacher in the
presence of a female teacher.
(4) Whenever corporal punishment is
administered, an entry shall be made on the same day in the
punishment book, with a statement of the nature and extent
of the punishment and the reason for inflicting it.
PART XIII MISCELLANEOUS
95. (1) All correspondence must be addressed to the
"Chief Education Officer" and not to any officer by name.
(2) Any teacher desiring to communicate with the
Chief Education Officer must do so through the manager.
96. (1) Managers and teachers shall furnish all returns,
statistics, entries for examinations, and any other information
with reference to any school or pupil which may be required
by the Chief Education Officer.
(2) Any teacher who fails to furnish any return or
other information in time to reach the Chief Education Officer
by the time specified, may be charged with neglect of duty
under regulation 47.
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SCHEDULE
The schemes of work contained in this Schedule indicate
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generally the scope and nature of the work expected in each
division. They are not intended to take the place of the
schemes of work to be drawn up by the head teacher of each
school.
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PART I SUGGESTED SCHEME OF WORK PREPARATORY DIVISION
AVERAGE AGE 6 TO 8
15 to 20 hours weekly
1. RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES AND
INSTRUCTION.
2. ENGLISH—
(a) Reading—
Primer—Any approved primer of a suitable standard.
Continuous Reader—Any pupil who has been in the
preparatory division for 12 months should have the
opportunity to use some suitable series of continuous
reader.
(b) Writing and Spelling—
To write in script words of four or five letters from the
blackboard or from a primer or reading sheet. Spelling of
simple words from reading book.
(c) Composition—
Fairy tales and animal stories; tales of birds and flowers,
health talks. Children should be encouraged to speak
freely. Whenever possible stories should be dramatised.
Individual recitation, nursery rhymes.
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3. NUMBER—
Notation and numeration from 0 to 100. Exercises on the
building up and breaking up of numbers up to 20 by
concrete examples, e.g. blocks, addition charts, clock
method or any similar method.
4. DRAWING—
Mass drawing. Once weekly; free drawing from imagination
or memory. Objects used to be simple in form and
attractive in colour, e.g. orange, lemon, tomato, coconut,
melon, onion, potato, pear; balls of various materials and
colours, large marbles, beads, balloons, rings, coins,
biscuits, wheels.
Drawing of these objects should be done in mass, i.e.
developed from the dot, gradually increasing until the
correct form is arrived at.
5. SINGING—
Singing games and action songs.
6. PHYSICAL TRAINING—
Tables 1-18 of the latest syllabus of Physical Training and
suitable tables from the latest edition of "Physical
Exercises for Rural Schools."
7. HANDWORK—
Paper tearing and cutting out to illustrate features of stories
told. The mounted specimens to decorate the walls near
the class. Beads, seeds and sticks and use of sand trays
for the junior section.
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8. RECREATION.
LOWER DIVISION
AVERAGE AGE 8 TO 10
25 hours weekly
1. RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES AND
INSTRUCTION.
2. ENGLISH.
(a) Reading—
To read from an approved reader of a suitable standard. To
read from continuous readers suitable for this division.
Simple recitations from anthologies suggested by the
Education Department from time to time.
(b) Writing and Spelling—
Cursive writing, with regular practice in script. A suitable
spelling book may be used, or lists of words should be
compiled by the teacher with the help of the class. The
pupils should be able to use these words in sentences.
Transcription and writing from approved copy books.
(c) Dictation—
Difficult words from the passage to be dictated should be
written sometimes on the blackboard and at other times
the passage should be dictated without any preliminary
assistance.
(d) Composition—
(i) Oral.—A variety of fairy tales and
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nature stories (birds, animals flowers),
stories of children of other lands;
health talks to be given daily.
Children in every case to be
encouraged to do most of the talking.
Continuous narrative to be
encouraged. Phases of the stories told
to be regularly dramatised.
N.B.—It is not proposed to give any formal lessons at this
stage in geography, hygiene and nature study. These may be taught
incidentally during the lessons on composition.
(ii) Written—Easy sentences on everyday
things to be written leading up to
continuous narrative in the form of
simple letters and easy reproduction
exercises.
(e) Grammar—
Analysis of simple sentences into subject and predicate, parts
of speech—noun, personal pronoun, verb, adjective,
adverb. The use of these parts of speech in sentences.
3. ARITHMETIC—
Notation to thousands, simple sums involving the four simple
rules, multiplication and division to twelve times twelve.
Multiples of ten and a hundred to be taught, e.g. 20, 200,
etc.
Easy fractions to be taught by concrete examples and easy
calculations in local coins up to a shilling.

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The work to be done in this division should be with pencil on
white paper.
Suitable exercises are—
(i) those giving exercises in judging the
direction of lines, e.g. hatpin, knitting
needle, pencil, match, whip, knife,
candle, capital letters, formed from
straight lines, e.g. L, T, F, V, H, N;
(ii) flat curved objects, e.g. bat, tennis
racquet, wooden spoon, knife, board,
coat-hanger, horse-shoe, kite;
(iii) rectangular forms and triangular
forms, e.g. envelopes, playing- card,
blotting-pad, label, picture-frame,
slate, T-square, paper bag, buckle,
purse, set square;
(iv) natural forms, e.g. leaves of castor oil,
bread fruit, tamarind; Drawing of
plan of school and class room.
Free drawing from imagination or memory and illustration of
composition lessons.
5. SINGING—
Action songs, nursery rhymes and singing games to be chosen
from the lists of books recommended by the Education
Department from time to time.
6. NEEDLEWORK—
Elementary lessons in this subject should commence in this
division.
4. DRAWING—
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Tables 19-36 of the latest Syllabus of Physical Training. Tables
for Young Children, I-VI, from "Physical Training for
Rural Schools" in small schools.
8. HANDWORK—
Paper tearing and folding, paper cutting and mounting to
illustrate phases of stories told; completed mounts to be
hung on walls. Plasticene work.
Any other suitable form at the discretion of the head teacher.
9. RECREATION.
MIDDLE DIVISION
AVERAGE AGE 10 TO 12
25 hours weekly
1. RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES AND
INSTRUCTION.
2. ENGLISH—
(a) Reading—
To read from an approved reading book.
Suitable continuous readers should be used, and stress laid on
the teaching of suitable recitations and selected poems.
(b) Writing and Spelling—
Transcription and dictation from the reading books. Copy
books are to be used at least during the first year in this
division.
7. PHYSICAL TRAINING.
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Spelling exercises of more difficult words.
(c) Composition—
Oral composition—continued with greater proficiency.
Written composition—(increased proficiency) including letter-
writing.
(d) Grammar—Simple parsing; analysis of
simple sentences.
(e) Spelling—by dictation.
3. ARITHMETIC—
Notation to millions; the four rules; problems in Guyana and
Commonwealth money; avoirdupois, linear, square and
dry measure; vulgar and decimal fractions; simple
averages, simple sums and problems of ordinary
practical life. Mental arithmetic including reading of the
clock.
4. GEOGRAPHY—
Form of the earth; meaning and use of a map with special
reference to Guyana; cause of day and night and the
seasons; land and water; simple definitions; meaning and
use of the compass; to draw a plan of the schoolroom.
Guyana in detail, its industries and trade with other parts of
the world; names and position of countries of the
Commonwealth on a map of the world; to draw an
outline map of Guyana, showing the boundaries, the
counties and the chief rivers.
To be taught and tested as far as possible by means of
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outdoor observation.
5. HISTORY (second year only)—
Lives of great men who have influenced the history of
Guyana and the Commonwealth.
6. NATURE STUDY AND GARDENING—
(a) Nature Study—
Elementary facts of plant and animal life. Common plants,
animals and insects of Guyana structure, habits and life
history. Demonstrations from plants in pots, boxes, etc.
General observation lessons dealing with the above.
(b) Gardening—
The one year course—see Schedule—part 4.
7. ELEMENTARY HYGIENE—
Value of fresh air and sunshine, of wholesome feeding, of
pure drinking water, of clean houses, and clean bodies.
Simple lessons on the mosquito and the fly. Cleaning and
keeping clean the school buildings. Simple lessons on
nutrition.
8. DRAWING—
The children should be taught how to estimate the width, and
the height of common objects after getting the eye level.
Suitable exercises are—
(i) jar, cake-tin, flower-pot (without rim),
tumbler, enamelled bowl, basin,
round box, round dish;
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(ii) more difficult exercises such as
flower-pot with rim, pudding basin,
sieve, ink well, reel, pickle and jelly
jars, Indian club, gloy bottle, aerated
water bottle, round tin and box with
lid, vase, thermos flask, Japanese
umbrella (open and half open), key,
knife with open blades, whistle, bows
of ribbon, padlock, tin opener, buckle,
brush, table fork, saw, axe;
(iii) natural forms—leaves of different
kinds, simple flower forms, as lily,
sunflower, zinnia, etc;
(iv) imaginative and memory drawing
connected with other lessons given
previously to class.
9. SINGING—
A definite number of new songs should be taught each term
and a list of them kept. They should include action songs.
10. NEEDLEWORK—
(a) tacking, running, hemming, top-sewing, sew
and fell seams, stitching, darning on a thin
place. Button holes, sewing on strings.
(b) Cutting out and making up small articles
and garments such as pillow slip,
handkerchief, runner, mat, apron, child's
chemise, infant's feeder.
(c) Running stitch in coloured thread to form
design; feather stitch; loop stitch.
11. PHYSICAL TRAINING—

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Tables 37-54 of the latest Syllabus on Physical Training.
Tables 1-9, Tables for Older Children from "Physical
Training for Rural Schools" to be used in rural and
smaller schools. The games mentioned in the "Physical
Training for Rural Schools" should be introduced.
12. HANDWORK—
Cardboard modelling, clay or plasticene modelling, basket
work, hammock making and other simple crafts.
13. WOODWORK (BOYS)—
The first year's work of the course—see Schedule—part 3.
14. DOMESTIC SUBJECTS (GIRLS)—
The first year's course—see Schedule—part 5.
15. RECREATION.
UPPER DIVISION
AVERAGE AGE 12 AND OVER
25 HOURS WEEKLY
1. RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES AND
INSTRUCTION.
2. ENGLISH—
Selections from English authors and from the history of
Guyana and other Commonwealth territories, with
increased proficiency. Recitation, analysis, parsing, letter
writing (increased proficiency), essay writing and
spelling.

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N.B.—The study of a definite number of continuous readers is
essential.
3. ARITHMETIC—
Weights and measures; compound and complex fractions;
practice; more advanced averages; bills of parcels; simple
proportion; simple interest.
Areas and volumes; compound proportion; advanced simple
interest and simple accounts.
N.B.—Stress should be laid on practical work.
4. GEOGRAPHY—
Simple physical geography, e.g. variations of climate, latitude,
longitude, etc.
General summary of past work. General features of the map
of the world and special reference to regions and to the
Commonwealth, West Indies included.
5. HISTORY AND CITIZENSHIP—
Features of Guyana history with special reference to events
which characterised the different periods.
Lives of great men who influenced particular periods of
Guyana and Commonwealth history (continued).
Privileges enjoyed by citizens of Guyana; duties required
from citizens of Guyana; central and local Government in
Guyana. Practical and progressive oral exercises.
6. NATURE STUDY AND GARDENING—
(a) Nature Study—
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The middle division course continued in greater detail with
special attention to practical work and drawing.
General observation lessons to be continued along with the
use of note books to record observations made. Where
possible weather observations should be made and
records kept with special reference to rainfall and
temperature.
(b) Gardening—
The two years' course—see Schedule—part 4. Home garden
competitions should be encouraged.
7. ELEMENTARY HYGIENE—
Rules of personal health in respect of food, drink, clothing,
cleanliness and fresh air; lessons on the principles of
nutrition; cleaning and keeping the schoolyard, and
sweeping and keeping clean the school buildings;
physical development of the body; singing.
8. DRAWING—
As in middle division, if pupils have not already completed
the exercises set for preparatory, lower, and middle
divisions.
Pupils who have completed the exercises set out for these
divisions should begin—
(a) Colour should be commenced—pastel and
brush.
(b) Cylindrical and conical forms containing
more detail than formerly.
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(c) Special attention should be given to
elementary perspective in model drawing.
(d) Imaginative and memory drawing.
Objects suitable are—
(i) tins of all kinds with lids, barrels,
bottles of all kinds, drums, butter
dishes, vases and jars of good shapes
and colours;
(ii) natural objects, e.g. leaves on twigs,
reeds and grasses, small shrubs,
flowers of various kinds, onions
singly or together, feathers, shells,
corn in pod or bursting from pod;
(iii) memory and imaginative drawing.
9. SINGING—
A number of new songs should be taught each term and a list
kept for reference. They should include patriotic airs for
use on special occasions.
10. NEEDLEWORK—
(a) Button holes, flannel patches, bias binding,
print and calico patches, gathering and
setting into band, darning stockings,
pleating, sewing on buttons, strengthening
tapes, marking.
(b) Cutting out and making up child's dress,
romper, school uniform, knickers, slips,
nightdress.
(c) Decorative stitchery. Cross stitch stitchery-
borders, seed- stitch, knotting and looping.
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(d) As in (a) but with greater proficiency. Hedge
tear and cross-cut darns, gusseting.
(e) Cutting out and making up dresses,
pyjamas, blouses, infant's nightdresses.
Shirts may also be attempted by the pupils
who show special aptitude.
(f) Making and decorating articles and
garments such as needle- cases, blotters,
calendars, infant's feeders, bonnets and
dresses.
11. PHYSICAL TRAINING—
Tables 55-72 of the latest Syllabus of Physical Training. Tables
for Older Children 1-9 from "Physical Training for Rural
Schools" should be used in small schools. The games
mentioned in this publication should also be introduced.

Note.—Teachers should consult the Education Department for
list of suitable text books to be used in each subject.
12. HANDWORK—
Basket work, hammock making and other crafts with more
advanced exercises. Book-binding and chair caning
should be commenced.
13. WOODWORK (BOYS)—
The two years' course—see Schedule—part 3. Minor repairs to
and painting of school buildings, fences, etc.
14. DOMESTIC SUBJECTS (GIRLS)—

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The two years' course—see Schedule—part 5.
15. RECREATION.
PART 2
SCHEME OF WORK FOR SCHOOLS IN
REMOTE AREAS PREPARATORY DIVISION
1. RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES AND
INSTRUCTION.
2. ENGLISH—
(a) Reading—
To read from sheets and primers. Word building.
(b) Writing—
Script writing. To write in semi-vertical script words of four
or five letters from the blackboard or primer.
(c) English Composition—
Story telling, conversation lessons on common things of the
district. Stories should be dramatised whenever suitable.
Nursery rhymes.
3. ARITHMETIC—
Number; counting. Recognition of figures and number groups
1-20. Analysis and synthesis of numbers to 20. Money:
Value and coins to 12 cents.
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A variety of interesting songs should be taught; at least two
new ones every term.
5. PHYSICAL TRAINING AND GAMES—
Syllabus of Physical Exercises for Rural Schools; Tables I to VI
(for younger children).
6. HANDWORK—
Expression work in paper to illustrate stories, recitations or
oral lessons. Where suitable clay is available, modelling
in clay should be done.
7. GARDENING—
Observation lessons on the school garden.
8. RECREATION.
LOWER DIVISION
1. RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES AND
INSTRUCTION.
2. ENGLISH—
(a) Reading—
To read from an approved reading book. Suitable continuous
readers should also be used and stress laid on suitable
recitations. Spelling—names of common objects, e.g.
home, farm, workshop. Words used in everyday speech.
(b) Writing—
(i) Semi-vertical script (continued).
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Transcription from readers.
(ii) Continuous cursive style should be
started. Children to begin writing on
paper.
(c) Composition—
Story telling (continued). Dramatisation of stories (continued);
stories of children of other lands (the map should be used
as an aid where necessary); stories of local birds, animals
and flowers for oral composition. Health talks (children
should be able to answer orally questions on the above).
3. ARITHMETIC—
(a) Notation and numeration to hundreds.
Simple sums in addition, subtraction, and
multiplication; practical exercises in buying
and changing money to 50 cents.
(b) Notation to 1,000; simple sums involving the
four rules, practical exercises in buying and
changing money to $1. Measurements:
inches; ½ inches, ¼ inches, 1 pint; 1 pound; 1
hour. Fractions: ½, ¼, etc.
4. SINGING—
A variety of interesting songs should be taught in the lower
and middle divisions.
5. PHYSICAL TRAINING AND GAMES—
Physical Exercises for Rural Schools; Tables for older children,
1 to 4.

6. GARDENING—
A garden plot sufficient to give adequate practice to 20
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children should be laid out on the school premises or
within convenient reach of the school. Typical garden
produce, e.g. plantains, cassava, sweet potatoes, varieties
of peas, tomato, lettuce, cabbage, beetroot, etc., should be
cultivated. There should be system in laying out,
whereby each different plant would have its own area.
7. HANDWORK—
Basket and/or hammock making, boat building to which each
child above the lower division (a) should devote one
whole day weekly or two half days a week. Samples of
the handwork done should be kept for inspection.
8. RECREATION.
MIDDLE DIVISION
1. RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCES AND
INSTRUCTION.
2. ENGLISH—
(a) Reading—
To read from an approved reading book. Reading from
suitable continuous readers with increased proficiency.
Recitations from readers and approved anthologies.
(b) Writing and Spelling—
(i) Practice in script writing should be
continued, but the cursive style
should now be generally used.
(ii) Spelling of more difficult words to be
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continued.
(c) Composition—
To be able to write friendly and business letters in clear,
simple style. To know some famous characters of local
history, e.g. Gravesande; peoples and children of other
lands; health chats should be reproduced and correlated
as part of the composition course. The map should be
used in dealing with peoples and children of other lands.
3. ARITHMETIC—
(a) Notation and numeration to tens of
thousands. The four rules, dealing with
Guyanese and Commonwealth money to
$25.
(b) Notation and numeration to hundreds of
thousands. Simple problems in Guyanese
and Commonwealth money, and weights
and measures. Special attention should be
paid to mental and practical arithmetic—
exercises in buying and selling, measuring
and squaring timber, cost of clearing grants,
measuring and laying out of garden plots.
All exercises should have a local bias. Easy
vulgar fractions and decimals to two places.
4. SINGING.
5. PHYSICAL TRAINING AND GAMES—
Physical Exercises for Rural Schools—Tables 5 to 9. Head
teachers should encourage parents to teach their children
to swim, whenever conditions are safe enough to allow
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6. GARDENING—
Elementary botany, e.g. study of seed, root, flower, fruit
should be correlated with gardening. Observation lessons
on animal, bird, insect, and pests should be attempted.
Visits should be paid to any place of interest nearby, e.g.
sugar or rice factory, coffee or lime cultivation, timber
grants. Opportunity should be taken when out in the
open to deal with natural phenomena, e.g. clouds, rain,
mist, tides.
7. HANDWORK—
Continued with increased proficiency.
8. RECREATION.
Note.—(1) There is to be no special time for such subjects as
history, geography, nature study and hygiene. These should be
correlated as shown above in the composition exercises.
(2) Where there is a woman teacher on the staff qualified
to teach sewing, this subject should be included, and the same
scheme should be followed as given in Schedule—part 1 according
to the division.
N.B.—Teachers should consult the Education Department for
list of text books to be used in each subject.
PART 3
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN WOODWORK
FIRST YEAR
FIRST TERM—
1. Lessons on historical facts of craft work, tracing the
progress and development of constructional work from the
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primitive ages to the present day. Working positions for
various exercises. Lessons on the simpler tools as are in daily
use.
2. Practical work—Illustrations of dressing material to
required dimensions. Joints—mortice and tenon (through and
secret), square tenon and hancheon, square half lap, barefaced
tenon. Models—simple shelf with brackets, ink-well tray,
picture frame.
3. Drawing—Contract Books 1 and 2.
SECOND TERM—
1. The various types of local woods and the localities
producing them, as compared with foreign woods; the
growth, characteristics and common uses of local woods and
current market rates of the same. Continued lessons on the
care of tools, their working parts, etc.
2. Practical—Joints—half-lap dovetail, slip joint.
Continuation of first term's work. Models—bookstand, tea-
tray, egg-stand, child's chair (wooden or rush seat), cutlery
tray.
3. Drawing—Contract Books 2 and 3.
THIRD TERM—
1. The preparation and seasoning of timber; board
measure in timber and lumber. The treatment of unseasoned,
knotted or warping woods. Classification of tools; methods of
sharpening and preparing for work, and reasons for the same.
2. Practical—Student's table and stool; table fitted
with drawer; small medicine cupboard; camp cot.
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3. Drawing—Contract Books 3 and 4.
SECOND YEAR
FIRST TERM—
1. Lessons on staining and waxing. Arithmetical
exercises—simple mensuration applied to actual woodwork,
making simple estimates for work to be done. Scale drawing
to be carefully practised and applied.
2. Practical—Joints—compound dovetail (open and
secret). Longitudinal grain jointing (dowelled, groove and
tongue). Models—file tray, cutlery tray with compartments,
handkerchief box, black-board. Models, except blackboard, to
be finished in wax.
3. Drawing—Practical woodwork exercises in the
orthographic projection to scale.
SECOND TERM—
1. Lessons on polishing. Continued arithmetical
exercises as during the first term, and other exercises as
experience suggests.
2. Practical—Joints—longitudinal grain jointing (loose
fillet, screw-head slot) housing. Models—cupboard with
compartments (suitable for school use), school furniture—
sizes C and D, plain easel. Simple models to be selected from
"Woodworker" magazine. All models to be finished in wax or
polish.
3. Drawing—Practical woodwork exercises in
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orthographic and isometric projections to scale. Templates for
school furniture may be had from the Trades Centre,
Georgetown.
THIRD TERM—
1. Revision of theoretical work of the previous terms.
2. Practical—Joints—splice, keyed scarf. Models—
school furniture, sizes A and B, easel with map slide; step
ladder; simple models from "Woodworker" magazine. All
work to be finished in oil, wax or polish.
3. Drawing—Pupils must be able to draw any model
they make in the most suitable projection to scale.
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PART 4
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN SCHOOL GARDENING
THE FOLLOWING SCHEME IS SUITABLE (WITH MINOR
MODIFICATIONSWHERE REQUIRED IN ANY SCHOOL
WHICH HAS A GARDEN) IN SELECTED SCHOOLS IT WILL
FORM PART OF THE SPECIAL COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN
RURAL SCIENCE AND ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE A TWO
YEAR COURSE FOR THE UPPER DIVISION
1. (a) OBJECTS OF A SCHOOL GARDEN—
(i) A training ground where children
learn the cultivation methods used for
growing useful and ornamental plants
and the foundations of practical
agriculture and horticulture.
(ii) A means of disseminating seeds and
plants.
(iii) An agency for the trial of new crops.
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(iv) To train the children's power of
observation and to interest them in
their surroundings.
(v) To teach the dignity of labour and
encourage an honest pride in good
work.
(vi) To relieve the routine of indoor work
with outdoor work of a pleasant and
recreative nature.
(vii) To cultivate a love of order, neatness
and good taste.
(b) FACTORS CONTROLLING THE SUCCESS OF A
SCHOOL GARDEN—
(i) Interest of teachers and pupils in
agriculture.
(ii) Suitability of site.
(iii) Competitions.
2. SEASONS—Months for planting; rainfall, etc.
3. THE SITE—Local peculiarities (soil and climatic) and agricultural difficulties (drainage, etc.).
4. THE PLOT—
(a) Knowledge of the plan or lay-out;
convenience for drainage; position of dams
and paths; seed-beds; nursery, etc.

(b) Preparation before bringing into cultivation;
general weeding, forking, levelling; division
into individual, communal or propagation
plots (due regard to suitability of size to
allow easy reach from any point without
trampling).
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5. CULTIVATION—
(a) Soil tilth, etc.; intercultivation and
care of plants during growth by
forking, manuring, mulching,
pruning, staking, watering, weeding,
ect .
6. SEEDS—
(a) (i) Germination of various seeds; time
taken.
(ii) Seed selection.
(iii) Seed vitality.
(b) Time taken by different plants to flower, to
fruit, to ripen, etc.; time taken from planting
to harvesting; how to store seeds.
7. NURSERY—
(a) Its position, use, etc.
(b) Preparation of seed-boxes and seed-beds.
(c) How to sow seeds in boxes or beds;
differences to be observed in respect of
different seeds.
(d) How to care for seedlings; watering,
sunlight, etc.
(e) Methods of plant propagation.
8. PLANTING—
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(i) Whole beds.
(ii) Holes.
(b) How to plant—
(i) Seeds.
(ii) Seedlings.
(iii) Cuttings, etc.
(c) Distancing.
(d) Transplanting—when, how; after-care,
including watering, shading, supplying, etc.
9. MANURES AND MANURING—
(a) Farm manure—composition; agricultural
value.
(b) Artificial fertilizers; functions; principal
types.
(c) Soil amendments—uses (liming).
(d) Compost heaps—value of such heaps and
methods of making.
(e) Cover crops.
10. CROPS—
(a) Crops suitable for a school garden—having
regard to size, soil, locality, etc.
(b) To distinguish between one plot and
another (seed, seedling, plant).
(c) General observation work in connection
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with each crop during growth.
11. HARVESTING—Periodicity of various crops;
methods to be adopted, etc. Yields per acre and cost of
production.
12. MARKETING—
(a) The necessity for choice of varieties suited to
local conditions.
(b) The necessity for quality in garden produce.
(c) The necessity for grading of garden
produce.
13. MISCELLANEOUS—
(a) Vegetative propagation—budding, ringing,
etc.
(b) Detection of pests and diseases and early
control measures; friends in the garden.
(c) Tools necessary for a school garden; uses.
(d) Observation work; use of note-books.
(e) Correlation of garden work with other
subjects.
14. HOME GARDENS—Students to have their own
gardens at home. Seed supplies, etc., to be obtained from the
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A ONE YEAR COURSE FOR MIDDLE DIVISION (b)
1. OBJECTS OF A SCHOOL GARDEN—
(i) A training ground where children
learn the cultivation methods used for
growing useful and ornamental plants
and the foundations of practical
agriculture and horticulture.
(ii) A means of disseminating seeds and
plants.
(iii) An agency for the trial of new crops.
(iv) To train the children's power of
observation and to interest them in
their surroundings.
(v) To teach the dignity of labour and
encourage an honest pride in good
work.
(vi) To relieve the routine of indoor work
with outdoor work of a pleasant and
recreative nature.
(vii) To cultivate a love of order, neatness
and good taste.
2. SEASONS—Months for planting; rainfall, etc.
3. THE SITE—Local peculiarities (soil and climatic)
and agricultural difficulties (drainage, etc.).
4. THE PLOT—
(i) The dams and their use.
(ii) The drains and their use.
(iii) The beds—
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(b) Why they should be easily reached
from drains or paths.
(c) Why they should not be trampled.
5. SEEDS—Germination of various seeds; time taken,
etc.
6. THE NURSERY—
(i) Why a nursery is necessary.
(ii) How to make seed-beds and seed-
boxes, and how to use them.
(iii) How to tend seedlings; watering,
shading, etc.
(iv) Methods of plant propagation.
7. PLANTING—
(i) Conditions necessary for planting.
(ii) How to plant seeds in holes (e.g.
blackeye, ochro).
(iii) How to plant seedlings in holes (e.g.
boulangers, tomatoes).
(iv) When to plant seedlings (time of day,
weather, etc.).
(v) When to care for seedlings and plants.
8. CULTIVATION—
(a) Soil tilth, etc.; inter-cultivation and care of
plants during growth by forking, manuring,
mulching, pruning, staking, watering,
weeding.

(b) Crop rotation—its importance and value.
(c) Fallowing.
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(d) Mulching—object and methods.
(e) Weeds—the harm they do; why we weed.
9. MANURES AND MANURING—
(a) Farm manure—composition; agricultural
value.
(b) Artificial fertilizers; functions, principal
types.
(c) Soil amendments—uses (liming).
(d) Compost heaps—value of such heaps and
methods of making.
(e) Cover crops.
10. CROPS—What to plant at different seasons, and
methods adopted for planting various crops.
11. HARVESTING—Periodicity of various crops;
methods to be adopted, etc. Yields per acre and cost of
production.
12. MARKETING—
(a) The necessity for choice of varieties suited to
local conditions.
(b) The necessity for quality in garden produce.
(c) The necessity for grading of garden
produce.
13. MISCELLANEOUS—
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(a) Vegetative propagation—budding, etc.
(b) Detection of pests and diseases and early
control measures; friends in the garden.
(c) Tools necessary for a school garden; uses.
(d) Observation work; use of note-book.
(e) Correlation of garden work with other
subjects.
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PART 5
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION IN DOMESTIC SUBJECTS
A.—OUTLINE OF COURSE
(i) Cookery—
All plain cooking.
The planning of a well balanced diet based on local
foods and conditions as far as possible.
The principles of nutrition.
(ii) Housewifery—
Hygiene in person and home.
Daily, weekly and periodical cleaning.
Division of weekly income.
Furnishing, decorating and renovating home.
Elementary care of infants.
Household accounts.
(iii) Laundry Work—
Family washing and care of clothes.
(iv) Needlework—
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Making, mending and renovating garments and
household linen.
(v) Craft Work—
Raffia and cane work.
Making of articles and ornaments for the home.
(vi) Examinations and revision will be held at the end of
each term.
(vii) Pupils will make notes of recipes, etc.
(viii) Books and magazines relating to these subjects will
be provided.
(ix) When possible, materials will be provided by the
girls, and articles made from school supplies will
be sold to them.
B.—FIRST YEAR
(1) TERM I
Cookery—
Methods of cooking. Milk.
Cereals
Vegetables.
Stoves and fuel.
Laundry Work—
Accommodation
and equipment.
Care of clothing in washing.
Laundry aids.
Treatment of coarse things.
Local cookery. Food value, purchase, boiling, storing. Rice, corn, oatmeal porridge. Local roots and green foods. Used in the home and school.
Compare with other
countries. Buttons, tapes,
etc. Soap, soda, starch,
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Housewifery—
Personal Hygiene. Parasites.
Body, teeth, nails, hair.
Cleanliness.
Disposal of refuse.
Fresh air and light.
Household pests
Rules for sweeping and
dusting.
Needlework—
Tools.
Essential stitches and seams.
Fastenings.
Mending.
Craft Work—
Dinner mats.
In the home.
Need of fresh air, natural
and artificial light.
Trimming lamps.
Flies, cockroaches,
moths, mice, rats,
etc., prevention.
Sweeping and dusting
school and house.
Thimbles, scissors,
needles, pins, etc.
Work-bags, towels,
dusters, aprons.
Buttons, buttonholes,
tapes.
Darning and patching
garments brought
from home.
Cane and raffia.
(2) TERM II
Cookery—
Cereals, rice, all roots.
Fish (shrimps, salt fish).
Salads, green food, etc.
Fruits grown locally.
Eggs.
Boiling, steaming,
baking, roasting.
Methods of cooking.
Value in diet. Boiling of
green foods.
Food value. Methods of
cooking,
Preparing of simple meals based on work done.
Care and storing of food
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Laundry Work—
Treatment of different fabrics.
Continue work as last term.
Housewifery—
Cleaning of house.
Care of plain and polished
wood.
Diets.
Cleaning of metals. Cleaning of
lamps.
Needlework—
Materials.
Pattern making.
Continue work as last term.
Craft Work-
Raffia bag.
One each week.
Daily and weekly
cleaning of home
and surroundings.
Scrubbing tables, desks
and forms; cleaning
and polishing
furniture.
Planning meals for
children.
Brass, tin, aluminium,
cutlery.
Their source,
manufacture and
price.
Divisions of figure.
Taking of
measurements.
Drafting simple
garments
(3) TERM III Cookery—
Soups and stocks.
Meats, choice and preparation.
Creole soup compared
with other soups.
Salt and fresh, boiling,
roasting, grilling,
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Meats left over.
Air as a raising agent.
Fresh fish.
Children's food
baking.
Rissoles.
Pancakes, bread.
Choice, preparation,
price, methods of
cooking.
Preparation, choice, etc.
Meals to be prepared based on work done.
Laundry Work—
Continue work of previous
terms.
Undergarments.
Treatment of fast and loose
dyes.
Ironing.
Housewifery—
Bedroom work.
Laying of table.
Rules for washing up.
Cleanliness and order in
kitchen and pantry
(including disposal of
day's refuse).
Own garments. Printed dresses. Equipment and preparation. Making and care of beds. Breakfast and tea for students. Washing glasses and all crockery.
Cleaning kitchen and
equipment.
Needlework—
Mending and renovating garments brought from home.
Care and use of machine.
An undergarment to be made, introducing simple
decorative stitches.
Machine to be used for long seams only.
Craft Work—
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C.—SECOND YEAR (1)
Term I
Cookery—
Milk and eggs.
Fruit.
Preserves.
Beverages.
Custards and puddings.
Stewed fruit.
Jams, jellies, pickles.
Coffee, cocoa, roasting,
grinding, storing,
Complete meals planned by girls based on first year's
work.
Housewifery—
Care and cleaning of
garments.
Expenditure of income.
Citizenship.
All general household
duties.
Laundry Work—
Removal of stains.
Care of clothes in drying.
Preparation of clothes for wash.
Continue work of last year.
Outer garments, boots
and shoes.
Division of weekly
wages.
Household accounts.
Habits, care of property,
truthfulness, honesty.
Homely methods.
Use of clothes line and
pegs.
Simple mending.
Needlework—
Continue work taken in first
year.
Use of paper patterns.
Dressmaking.
Adapting of patterns.
School dresses.
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Boy's clothing
Girls to be allowed to use
machine.
Craft Work—
Lampshades
Boy's shirts and trousers.
(2)TERM II
Cookery—
Pastry.
Eggs.
Sweetmeats.
Fruit drinks.
Meat pies and shrimp
patties. Poached, scrambled,
omelettes, boiled and fried.
Fudge, candy, toffee, local chocolate.
Made from local fruit,
Meals planned by girls on work done.
Housewifery—
Care and feeding of infants.
Treatment of common
accidents.
Laundry Work—
Family washing.
Rules for disinfecting
clothes.
Needlework—
Continue work of last term.
Pajamas and shirts.
All family and household
mending.
Craft Work—
A hat made from simple
Bottles, care and
cleaning. Washing of
infants.
Cuts, burns, bruises.

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straw, combined with raffia.
(3) TERM III
Cookery—
Invalid cookery.
Cakes.
Custard and puddings
Planning of meals.
Beef tea, barley water,
etc.
Sponge sandwich, fruit
cake, small rock cakes.
Ice-cream, milk
puddings.
For children; for family. Complete meals to be planned and cooked.
Housewifery—
All household duties. Laundry Work—
Family washing
All clothing with the
exception of large sheets,
or any very heavy
garments.
Needlework— Outfit for baby.
Large doll to be dressed.
Cradle to be fitted up.
Craft Work—
Decoration of simple pottery.
Revise any work necessary this term.
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GOVERNMENT GENERAL CERTIFICATE
SCHOLARSHIPS REGULATIONS
ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS REGULATION
1. Citation.
2. Number of Scholarships to be awarded annually.
3. Condition of eligibility.
4. Form of application and evidence of eligibility.
5. Test examination.
6. Method of award.
7. Awards to be made by the Minister.
8. Tenure and value of scholarships.
9. Schools at which tenable.
10. Scholarship not to be held with other scholarships.
11. Supervision of scholars.
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Regs. 6/1951
22/1952
17/1958
4/1959
14/1961
4 of 1972
GOVERNMENT GENERAL CERTIFICATE
SCHOLARSHIPS REGULATIONS
made under section 54
Citation.
[Reg. 22/1952
17/1958
4 of 1972]

Number of
scholarships to
be awarded
annually.
[22/1952
4 of 1972]

Condition of
eligibility.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Government
General Certificate Scholarships Regulations.
2. Fifteen Government General Certificate
Scholarships (hereinafter referred to as "the scholarships")
shall be open to competition annually.
3. Any boy or girl may compete for the scholarships
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Form of
application and
evidence of
eligibility.
who—
(a) is a Commonwealth citizen;
(b) is sixteen years of age or under on the
first day of January in the year in
which the examination is held;
(c) satisfies the Chief Education Officer
as to his or her good character and
conduct; and
(d) has had his or her usual place of
residence in Guyana—
(i) if born in Guyana or the child
of parents one of whom was
born in Guyana, for a period of
not less than two years
immediately preceding the first
day of the examination; or
(ii) in all other cases, for a period of
not less than five years
immediately preceding the first
day of the examination.
4. (1) Any boy or girl desiring to compete for one of
the scholarships shall submit to the Chief Education Officer a
form of application giving such information as the Chief
Education Officer may require.
(2) Each form of application shall be supported by
written evidence of the candidate's eligibility under
regulation 3 hereof and shall be forwarded so as to reach the
Chief Education Officer at his office in Georgetown not later
than 4 p.m. on such date as the Chief Education Officer may
fix by notice in the Gazette and in a newspaper circulating in
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Test
examination.
[Reg. 4 of 1972]

Method of
award.
[Reg. 22/1952
4/1959]
Guyana.
5. The text examination shall be the General
Certificate Examination of the University of London
(Overseas), or such other examinations as the Minister may
from time to time direct. The Chief Education Officer shall
publish a notice in the Gazette and in a newspaper circulating
in Guyana not less than six months before the first day of the
examination, stating the subjects of the examination, the date
thereof and the place or places where it will be held.
6. (1) The fifteen scholarships shall be awarded
annually as follows—
(a) three to the boys who are placed first,
second and third in order of merit
among the approved boy candidates;
(b) three to the girls who are placed first,
second and third in order of merit
among the approved girl candidates;
and
(c) nine to the candidates (of either sex)
who are placed next in order of merit:
Provided that no scholarship shall be awarded to any
candidate who, in the opinion of the examining body, fails to
attain either a Grade I or Grade II pass in the text
examination.
(2) In the event of any candidate not being
awarded a scholarship in pursuance of paragraph (1) (a) or (b)
as a result of such candidate not attaining either a Grade I or
Grade II pass in the test examination, such scholarship shall
be awarded to the candidate who attains either a Grade I or
Grade II pass in the test examination and is next in order of
merit after the candidates who have been awarded
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Awards to be
made by the
Minister.
Tenure and
value of
scholarships.

Schools at
which tenable.

Scholarship not
to be held with
other
scholarships.
[4 of 1972]

Supervision of
scholars.
scholarships in pursuance of paragraph (1)(c).
7. The Chief Education Officer shall report the results
of the examination to the Minister by whom the awards will
be made.
8. Each successful candidate (hereinafter referred to as
"the scholar") shall be entitled to—
(i) free tuition for three years at an
approved school, the cost of
which to the Government shall
not exceed $30 per term for a
school year of three terms; and
(ii) the sum of $40 per annum for
three years payable to the
parent or guardian of such
scholar in three equal
instalments.
9. The scholarships shall be tenable at such secondary
schools as the Minister may from time to time direct.
10. No boy or girl who holds a scholarship or is in
receipt of any other aid towards the cost of his or her
education which is administered or provided by any public
department or public officer, shall at the same time hold a
Government General Certificate Scholarship.
11. (1) For the purposes of his education every scholar
shall be subject to the general supervision of the Chief
Education Officer.
(2) The Principal of the school which the scholar
attends shall, at the end of each term, forward to the Chief

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Education Officer a report on the work, conduct, and progress
of the scholar.
(3) If any scholar is the subject of an unfavourable
report by a Principal, the Chief Education Officer may, at his
discretion, suspend for one or more terms any or all of the
rights conferred on such scholar by regulation 8 hereof.
(4) If any scholar is the subject of two consecutive
unfavourable reports from a Principal, the Minister may
direct that such scholar shall forfeit the scholarship and
thereupon all rights and privileges under the scholarship
shall determine.
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Reg. 26/1955 GOVERNMENT TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
REGULATIONS
made under section 54
Citation.
Control and
Management.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Government
Technical Institute Regulations.
2. (1) The control and management of the Government
Technical Institute (hereinafter referred to as "the Institute")
shall be vested in a Board of Governors (hereinafter called
"the Board").
(2) The Board shall consist of not less than ten and
not more than twelve members.
(3) The Chairman of the Board shall be nominated
by the Minister and the Vice-Chairman shall be elected from
among the members by the members themselves.
(4) The Chief Labour Officer and the Chief Works
Governme t General Certificate Scholarship Regulations
Government Technical Institute Regulations
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Age of
admission to
evening
courses.
Enrolment.

Fees.
and Hydraulics Officer shall be ex officio members of the
Board.
(5) The Principal of the Institute (hereinafter
referred to as "the Principal") shall be an ex officio member,
but shall not vote on questions under consideration by the
Board.
(6) Subject to the foregoing paragraphs, every
member of the Board shall be appointed by the Minister and
shall hold office for two years and be eligible for re-
appointment for further periods of two years.
(7) Five members (including the presiding
member) shall form a quorum.
(8) In the absence of the Chairman, the Vice-
Chairman shall act as Chairman, and in the absence of both
the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman, the members may elect
any of their number to preside at a meeting of the Board.
3. No candidate shall be admitted to any evening
course until he or she has attained the age of 14 years. There
shall be no upper age limit for students.
4. No person shall be admitted to any course unless he
or she complies with the requirements of the Board in
connection therewith.
5. (1) Every candidate shall before admission pay the
appropriate fee for the course, as fixed from time to time by
the Board.
(2) At their discretion, the Board may waive fees
for teachers or students of the Government Training College
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Curriculum
and course of
instruction.

Trading as a
result of the
activities of the
Institution.
Control of
internal
administration.
Academic year.

Annual
estimates.

Scholarship
Fund.

Annual Report
and accounts.
6. (1) The curriculum shall provide Technical
Education for apprentices, learners and others engaged in
industry and commerce through day and evening classes and
the Institute shall conduct such classes and other courses of
instruction as the Board in consultation with other bodies
may deem expedient for the promotion of culture and
knowledge in persons desirous of entering or already
engaged in industry and commerce.
(2) The Board, with the advice of the Principal,
shall prepare schemes for curricula, examinations and
certificates. Particulars of these schemes shall appear in a
prospectus to be published annually.
7. The activities of the Institute shall be principally
confined to the training of students and trading may be
resorted to as is commensurate with the particular course of
training, and shall be subject to the approval of the Board.
8. The Principal shall be in complete control of the
internal administration of the Institute.
9. The academic year of the Institute shall not exceed
thirty-six weeks and shall be divided into three terms as
decided by the Principal in consultation with the Board.
10. The Board shall submit to Government, through
the Chief Education Officer, annual estimates, accompanied
by any proposals for development involving capital or
recurrent expenditure.
11. The Board shall be responsible for the operation of
the "Government Technical Institute Scholarship Fund" and
shall be authorised to receive and disburse moneys.
12. The Board shall within three months of the end of
the final academic year prepare an Annual Report to be
submitted to the Minister through the Chief Education Officer
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Advisory
Committees.

Equipment
Factory.

and a statement of accounts which shall be duly audited by
an auditor approved on that behalf by the Minister.
13. (1) The Board may appoint Advisory Committees
in respect of and representative of industries or trades or of
both industries and trades for which courses are or are to be
provided.
(2) Each Advisory Committee shall include one
member of the Board.
14. The Equipment Factory shall be under the control
of the Equipment Principal. Students shall be permitted to
work in the Factory for such periods as may be desirable in
the interests of their training.
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Reg. 18/1957
5/1960 SECONDARY SCHOOLS REGULATIONS
made under section 54
Citation.
Interpretation.
[Reg. 5/1960]
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Secondary
Schools Regulations
2. (1) In these Regulations—
"Board of Governors" means a Board of Governors of a
Government-aided secondary school constituted in
accordance with regulation 17;
"the Council" means the National Council of Education
established by the Act;
"school" means a secondary school being either a Government
Secondary School Regulations
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Application to
be placed on
Aided Schools
List.
[Reg. 5/1960]
secondary school or a Government-aided secondary
school;
"teacher" includes everyone who forms part of the
educational staff of a school.
(2) Any duty or power relating to visits of
inspection imposed or conferred by these Regulations on the
Chief Education Officer may be performed or exercised, as
the case may be, by any person or persons duly authorised by
him for that purpose.
(3) The Chief Education Officer shall prepare and
maintain a list (hereinafter called "the Aided Schools List") of
all schools other than Government Schools in respect of which
applications for grants-in-aid have been received and which
are eligible for grants-in-aid under these Regulations.
3. (1) Application for a school to be placed on the
Aided Schools List shall be made in writing to the Chief
Education Officer by the person or authority for the time
being responsible for the control and management of the
school, and shall contain such particulars as may be required
by the Chief Education Officer.
(2) On application being made for the school to be
placed on the Aided Schools List, the school shall be liable to
inspection by the Chief Education Officer.
(3) Such inspection shall have regard to the general
conditions prevailing at the school, the suitability of
education provided by the school, and the relation of the
school to other schools available for the area.
(4) If the school satisfies the conditions prescribed
in these Regulations, the Chief Education Officer shall place
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General
qualifications
for grants-in-
aid.
(5) The Chief Education Officer may remove from
the Aided Schools List any school which in his opinion no
longer satisfies or otherwise fails to conform with the
conditions prescribed in these Regulations:
Provided that there shall be a right of appeal to the
Minister from any decision of the Chief Education Officer that
a school should not be placed on the Aided Schools List or
should be removed from the said List, and the decision of the
Minister on any such appeal shall be final.
(6) The Aided Schools List as amended from time
to time shall be submitted to the Council who shall as often as
they think fit consider the List and recommend to the Minister
on a priority basis the aid to be given to the approved schools
out of such funds as may be available for the purpose.
(7) The Minister shall prescribe the aid, if any, to be
given to a school on the Aided Schools List out of moneys
provided by Parliament for that purpose.
4. In order to qualify for grants-in-aid a school shall
offer to each of its pupils a progressive course of general
education as defined in these Regulations (with the requisite
organisation, curriculum, teaching staff and equipment) of a
kind and an extent suitable for pupils between the ages of 11
and 19 years. This course should be of at least four years
duration leading to the General Certificate of Education
(Ordinary Level) or its equivalent, and wherever possible
should include an additional two-year course leading to the
General Certificate of Education (Advanced Level) or its
equivalent. Any provision made for pupils below the age of
11 years shall similarly be appropriate and in proper relation
to the work in the main section of the school:
Provided, however, that no grant shall be payable in
respect of provision made in any school for pupils below the
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School not to be
conducted for
private profit.
Premises.

Minimum
enrolment.

Duration of
school year.
age of 11 years.
5. No grant-in-aid shall be payable to any school
conducted for private profit, but such a school may
nevertheless be placed on the Aided-Schools List if the Chief
Education Officer is satisfied that there is in preparation a
scheme under which such school will cease to be conducted
for private profit upon receipt of any grant under these
Regulations.
6. (1) Every school shall have adequate
accommodation for the number of pupils enrolled, with
minimum classroom floor space of 12 square feet per pupil.
(2) The school premises shall at all times be kept in
a sanitary condition, shall be convenient for teaching
purposes and shall be provided with adequate equipment
and appliances for the curriculum approved in accordance
with these Regulations.
(3) No grant shall be payable to any school unless
the Chief Education Officer is satisfied that the Board of
Governors have reasonable security to tenure of the school
premises.
7. A school shall not be placed or retained on the
Aided Schools List unless it has at least 100 pupils between
the ages of 11 and 19 years undergoing an approved course of
secondary education.
8. (1) Every school shall meet regularly during not less
than 36 weeks in the course of each year, the school hours,
dates of vacations and occasional holidays being notified to
the Chief Education Officer. Periods of closure on the advice
of the medical or sanitary authorities or for other unavoidable
cause shall be notified to the Chief Education Officer and
shall be deemed for the purpose of these Regulations to be
periods during which the school met.
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Curriculum.

Practical
instruction.

Language.

(2) For the purpose of school work and of
calculating average attendance and other statistics and
returns required under these Regulations the school year
shall, except in special cases and with the approval of the
Chief Education Officer begin on the 1st September, and end
on the 31st August.
9. (1) The curriculum (with time analysis) of every
school shall be submitted to the Chief Education Officer for
approval. It shall provide for due continuity of instruction in
each of the subjects taken and for an adequate amount of time
being given to each subject.
(2) The curriculum shall provide instruction in
English Language and English Literature, at least one
language other than English, mathematics, geography and
history.
(3) The curriculum shall make such provision for
physical education, manual instruction, science, art and music
as the Chief Education Officer may accept as adequate,
having regard to the circumstances of the school.
10. In schools for girls, or in co-educational schools in
respect of girls, the curriculum shall, wherever possible,
include provision for theoretical and practical instruction in
home economics and an approved course in this subject may
in such cases be substituted wholly or in part for science and
for mathematics other than arithmetic.
11. By permission of the Chief Education Officer,
languages other than English may be omitted from the
curriculum of any school provided that the Chief Education
Officer is satisfied that the instruction in English includes an
adequate course in language and literature, and that practical
instruction is being given in science, manual training or home
economics.
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Special courses.


Alteration in
curriculum.
Teaching staff
and size of
classes.

Religious
observances
and
instructions.
12. Special groups of pupils in any school may, with
the approval of the Chief Education Officer, follow a
curriculum different from the curriculum approved for the
rest of the school.
13. Where it is proposed that permanent alterations
should be made in the approved curriculum of any school,
such alterations shall be submitted to the Chief Education
Officer for approval, but an approved curriculum need not be
resubmitted to the Chief Education Officer so long as no
substantial alteration in it is desired by the Board of
Governors or required by the Chief Education Officer.
14. (1) The teaching staff of every school shall be
adequate in number and sufficiently qualified to provide
proper instruction in each subject of the approved
curriculum.
(2) The Board of Governors of every school shall
notify the Chief Education Officer of all appointments to the
teaching staff and of the qualifications and teaching
experience of the persons appointed.
(3) The size of any class in a school shall not exceed
35 except with the approval of the Chief Education Officer.
15. It shall not be required that a pupil shall attend or
abstain from attending any Sunday school or any place of
religious worship or that he shall, or shall not, attend any
religious observance whatever.
(2) Religious observances may be held in any
school but in such cases should ordinarily be held at the
beginning or end of the school sessions, and the time of any
religious instruction shall be specified in the time table. For
the purpose of such observances and instructions the pupils
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Control and
management.
(3) Any pupil may, at the request of his parent or
guardian, be withdrawn from any such religious observance
or instruction without forfeiting any of the other benefits of
the school.
(4) Religious instruction, if given, shall not be
provided from any grant-in-aid under these Regulations.
16. (1) The control and management of every school
not being a Government school shall be vested in a Board of
Governors.
(2) The Board of Governors shall consist of not less
than five and not more than nine members, of whom not
more than two shall be appointed by the Minister:
Provided that the Board of Governors shall not be
required to be constituted or, if constituted, to comprise any
member appointed by the Minister until such time as the
Minister has approved of the payment of a grant in respect of
the school.
(3) The Board of Governors shall act in accordance
with Rules prescribed for it and approved by the Minister
after consultation with the Education Committee. Such Rules
shall, as regards the responsibility for general control,
prescribe the constitution and define the functions of the
Board of Governors, and as regards the responsibility for
management of the school, define the functions of the Board
of Governors and of the Principal.
(4) A copy of such Rules shall be deposited with
the Chief Education Officer and shall not be varied or
departed from in any important respect without previous
notification to the Chief Education Officer.
(5) The Board of Governors shall appoint a person
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Inspection.

Organization.

Returns.
to act as its correspondent with the Chief Education Officer.
(6) A meeting of the Board of Governors shall be
held at least once in every term, and shall normally be held
when the school is inspected. The accounts and any other
documents relating to the control and management of the
school shall be produced when required by the Chief
Education Officer.
17. (1) Every school shall at all reasonable times be
open to inspection and examination by the Chief Education
Officer. The school premises and surroundings shall also be
subject to inspection by the Chief Medical Officer or any
member of the Medical Department authorised by him for
that purpose.
(2) When a grant is paid out of public funds in
respect of or towards the assistance of the education of pupils
at an institution or any branch thereof, all branches of
educational work carried on in or by that institution shall be
subject to inspection and examination by the Chief Education
Officer.
18. Every school shall be generally organized and
conducted in a manner which the Chief Education Officer
considers efficient.
19. (1) Any statistical returns and estimates relating to
any school called for by the Chief Education Officer shall be
furnished promptly by the Board of Governors.
(2)An audited statement of income and
expenditure for each school year in such form as may be
required by the Chief Education Officer and made up to the
31st day of August shall be furnished by every Board of
Governors in respect of schools under their control and
management not later than the 30th day of September in each
year. No such statement shall be published without the
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Schools open to
all pupils.
Free or reduced
fee places.

Registers.

Payment of
grants.
consent of the Board of Governors concerned.
20. (1) Every school shall be open to pupils of all
denominations and races.
(2) Every school shall accept as a pupil the holder
of any scholarship or foundation administered by the
Education Department who applies for admission and who is
recommended for admission by the Chief Education Officer.
21. In addition to the places reserved for scholarship
or foundation holders, each school may, at the discretion of
the Board of Governors, grant a number of free or reduced fee
places, the number of such places to be approved by the Chief
Education Officer.
22. Records of the admission and attendance of all
pupils shall be kept in registers approved by the Chief
Education Officer. All such registers shall be open to
inspection by the Chief Education Officer or any officer
authorised by him.
23. (1) Grants for practical instruction, and special
grants shall be payable by the Accountant General on the
application of the correspondent of the Board of Governors
certified by the Chief Education Officer.
(2) Salaries grants shall be payable monthly by the
Accountant General on the application of the correspondent
of the Board of Governors certified by the Chief Education
Officer.
(3) The payment of all grants is dependent on the
amount provided annually for that purpose by Parliament
and nothing in these Regulations shall be regarded as
constituting a right to any such grant.

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Increase in
school fees.
[Reg. 18/1957
5/1960]
(4) The Chief Education Officer may at any time
suspend the issue of grants to any school which in his opinion
has ceased to be efficient or to fulfil any other of the
conditions prescribed by these Regulations for the issue of
grants from public funds. Before doing so, he shall send to the
Board of Governors a statement showing in what respect the
school has fallen below the standard required and such
statement shall be laid before the Education Committee at the
first opportunity.
(5) The Board of Governors of any school whose
grant has been suspended by the Chief Education Officer
under the foregoing paragraph may appeal in writing to the
Minister from such suspension and the decision of the
Minister shall be final.
24. (1) An increase in school fees may only be effected
as from the commencement of a school year and at no other
time. Any such increase shall be subject to approval of the
Chief Education Officer being first obtained.
(2) An application for such approval which shall
state the amount by which it is proposed to increase the
school fees shall be made in writing not later than six months
prior to the commencement of the school year at the
commencement of which the increase is to become effective.
(3) Parents and guardians shall be informed of any
increase in school fees for which the approval of the Chief
Education Officer has been obtained not later than the
commencement of the term immediately preceding the school
year at the commencement of which the increase is to become
effective.
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Reg. 14/1959 CENTENARY AND JOHN WRAY
SCHOLARSHIPS REGULATIONS
made under section 54
Citation.
Centenary
Scholarships.

John Wray
Scholarship.

Qualifying
standard.

General
Regulations.
Award to be
made by the
Minister.
Tenure and
value of
scholarships.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Centenary
and John Wray Scholarships Regulations.
2. Three Centenary Scholarships shall be awarded
annually on the basis of the results of the Government County
Scholarship examination to the boys or girls who are placed
next in order of merit to those who have been awarded
Government County Scholarships.
3. One John Wray Scholarship shall be awarded
annually on the John Wray basis of the results of the
Government County Scholarship examination to a boy or girl
who is placed next in order of merit to those who have been
awarded Centenary Scholarships.
4. No Centenary or John Wray Scholarship shall be
awarded to Qualifying any candidate who has obtained less
than 60 per cent of the total marks in the subjects of the
examination and less than 50 per cent of the marks in English.
5. The Regulations hereinafter set out shall apply in all
respects and in like manner to the holders of Centenary
Scholarships and John Wray Scholarships respectively.
6. The Chief Education Officer shall report the results
of the examination to the Minister by whom the awards shall
be made.
7. Each scholar shall be entitled to free tuition for five
years at such secondary school as the Minister may direct.
Centenary and John Wray Scholarship Regulations
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No
maintenance
allowance.
Scholarships
not to be held
with any other
scholarships,
etc.

Extension of
scholarships.

Supervision
and discipline
of scholars.
The cost of tuition shall be borne by the Government.
8. No maintenance allowance shall be payable to
scholars awarded Centenary or John Wray Scholarships.
9. (1) No boy or girl who holds a scholarship or is in
receipt of any other aid towards the cost of his or her
education which is administered by the Education
Department or by any other public department or officer shall
at the same time hold a Centenary or John Wray Scholarship.
(2) Any candidate who becomes eligible for the
award of a Centenary or John Wray Scholarship but is either
the holder of another scholarship or is in receipt of any other
aid towards the cost of his or her education, shall be entitled
to relinquish his or her rights under the said scholarship or
aid and accept in lieu thereof the benefits of a Centenary or
John Wray Scholarship as the case may be.
10. (1) If the holder of a scholarship qualifies for the
School Certificate or a recognized Schools Examination Board
with credits in four or more subjects including English
Language or for the General Certificate of Education of any
approved University or any University Joint Board with
passes in five or more subjects obtained at one and the same
sitting of that examination the Minister may extend the
scholarship for such period as the holder is eligible to sit for
the Guyana Scholarship.
(2) During any period of extension the scholar
shall be entitled to the benefits of the scholarship as stated in
regulation 7 but shall be subject to regulation 11.
11. (1) For the purposes of his education every scholar
shall be subject to the general supervision of the Chief
Education Officer.
(2) The Principal of the school which the scholar
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attends shall, at the end of each term forward to the Chief
Education Officer a report of the work, conduct and progress
of the scholar.
(3) If any scholar is the subject of an unfavourable
report by the Principal, the Chief Education Officer may, at
his discretion, suspend for one or more terms all or any of the
rights conferred on such scholar by these Regulations.
(4) If any scholar is the subject of two consecutive
unfavourable reports from the Principal, the Minister may
direct that such scholar shall forfeit the scholarship and
thereupon all rights and privileges under the scholarship
shall determine.
(5) A Principal who issues an unfavourable report
to the Chief Education Officer in respect of a scholar shall
inform the scholar, as well as the parent or guardian of the
scholar of that unfavourable report.
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Reg. 1/1960 QUEEN'S COLLEGE AND BISHOPS' HIGH
SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS REGULATIONS
made under section 54
Citation.
Award of
scholarships.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Queen's
College and. Bishops' High School Scholarships Regulations.
2. (1) Queen's College and Bishops' High School
Scholarships each of the value of forty dollars per annum and
free tuition shall be offered annually to boys attending
Queen's College and girls attending Bishops' High School to
enable winners to continue their studies at their respective
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Number of
scholarships

Eligibility for
scholarships.

Method of
award.
schools until they cease to be eligible to compete for the
Guyana Scholarships.
(2) The sum of forty dollars per annum shall be
payable in three instalments one at the beginning of each
term, to the parent or guardian of such scholar.
3. The total number of such scholarships tenable in
each school during any one year shall be calculated on the
basis of one scholarship for every complete unit of forty
pupils in that school.
4. (1) To be eligible for a Queen's College or Bishops'
High School Scholarship a candidate must obtain passes in at
least five subjects at the Ordinary Level at one and the same
sitting in the General Certificate of Education Examination of
the Joint Board of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
and must be under seventeen years of age on the first day of
January of the year of the award.
(2) No boy or girl who holds a scholarship or is in
receipt of any other aid towards the cost of his or her
education which is administered or provided by any public
department or public officer, shall at the same time hold a
Queen's College or Bishops' High School Scholarship.
(3) Any candidate who becomes eligible for the
award of a Queen's College or Bishops' High School
Scholarship but is either the holder of another scholarship or
in receipt of any other aid towards the cost of his or her
education, as mentioned in paragraph (2) of this regulation,
shall be entitled to relinquish his or her rights under the said
scholarship or aid and accept in lieu thereof the benefits of a
Queen's College or Bishops' High School Scholarship, as the
case may be.
5. The awards in any one year shall be in accordance
with the order of merit at the General Certificate of Education
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Supervision of
scholars.

Lapse of
scholarships.
(Ordinary Level) Examination of the Joint Board of the
Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The order of merit
shall be based on the average of the five subjects in which the
candidates attain the highest results at one and the same
sitting of the examination.
6. (1) For the purposes of his education every scholar
shall be subject to the general supervision of the Chief
Education Officer.
(2) The Principal of the school which the scholar
attends shall at the end of each term, forward to the Chief
Education Officer a report of the work, conduct and progress
of the scholar.
(3) If any scholar is the subject of an unfavourable
report by the Principal, the Chief Education Officer may, at
his discretion, suspend for one or more terms all or any of the
rights conferred on such scholar by regulation 2.
(4) If any scholar is the subject of two consecutive
unfavourable reports from the Principal, the Minister may
direct that such scholar shall forfeit the scholarship and
thereupon all rights and privileges under the Scholarship
shall determine.
(5) A Principal who issues an unfavourable report
to the Chief Education Officer in respect of a scholar shall
inform the scholar, as well as the parent or guardian of the
scholar, of that unfavourable report
7. A scholarship shall lapse when the holder ceases to
be eligible to compete for the Guyana Scholarships or in the
event of his winning or being awarded one of those
scholarships.
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Reg. 8/1963 SECONDARY SCHOOLS (ADMISSION)
REGULATIONS
made under section 54
Citation.
Interpretation.
[Reg. 18/1957]
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Secondary
Schools Citation. (Admission) Regulations.
2. In these Regulations—
"aided secondary school" means a secondary school in respect
of which a grant-in-aid is paid under the Secondary
Schools Regulations;
"examination" means the Secondary Schools Entrance
Examination conducted by the Minister for the purpose
of allocating places in a secondary school;
"free place" means a place in a secondary school awarded to a
person on the basis of his performance at the examination
and entitling him to free tuition;
"free place student" means a person who is awarded a free
place at a secondary school;
"governing body" means the person responsible for the
control and management of a secondary school;
"parent" in relation to any candidate includes a guardian and
any person who has the actual custody of that candidate;
"secondary school" means either a Government or a
Government aided secondary school;
"specified score" means the number or grade indicating the
level of performance which the Minister may from time
to time require to be attained at the examination in order
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Admission.

Subjects of
examination.
to render a candidate eligible for admission to a
secondary school.
3. (1) No person shall be admitted to a secondary
school unless he has attained the specified score and has been
allocated a place or a free place in accordance with these
Regulations:
Provided that the Minister may in any case where he
thinks fit permit a governing body to admit any person to a
secondary school notwithstanding that the person did not
take the examination or does not qualify to take the
examination by reason of his age.
(2) Every person who is not less than ten years of
age and not more than twelve years of age on the 31st March
in the year of the examination shall be eligible to take the
examination.
Provided that the Minister may permit a person who has
attained the age of nine years but is less than ten years on the
aforesaid qualifying date to take the examination if he is
satisfied that the ability of that person justifies the taking of
the examination by that person.
(3) Proof of the age of a candidate shall be
produced to the satisfaction of the Minister.
4. (1) The subjects of the examination shall be English
and Arithmetic and such other subjects as the Minister may
from time to time specify.
(2) The Minister shall from time to time publish a
notice in the Gazette stating the subjects, the date and the
place of the examination, and such other details as he may
consider necessary.
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Allocation of
places.
Award of free
places.


Free place.
Taking up of
free place.

5. Candidates who attain the specified score at the
examination shall be allocated places in secondary schools by
the Minister in accordance with their order of merit and,
where practicable, the choice of school made by their parents.
6. (1) The Minister shall award each year such number
of free places as he thinks fit.
(2) Free places awarded in pursuance of the
preceding paragraph shall be tenable only at Government
secondary schools:
Provided that in any area where there is no Government
secondary school the award of a free place may be tenable at
any Government aided secondary school which exists in that
area.
7. (1) A candidate shall be eligible for a free place if he
attains at the examination such score as the Minister may
from time to time deem appropriate for the award of a free
place.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) the Minister
may award a free place to a candidate with a score lower than
that deemed appropriate for the award of a free place.
(3) Before making any award in pursuance of
paragraph (2), the Minister shall have regard to the existing
facilities for education in the area in which the candidate
attends school and the performance of the candidate at the
examination and shall be satisfied of the likelihood of the
candidate deriving substantial benefit from the training to be
provided for him by virtue of the award of a free place.
8. Each free place shall be taken up immediately after
the award, or after such interval as the Minister may approve
and shall entitle the free place student to free tuition for five
years.
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Assistance
allowance.

Cost of tuition.

Free place
scholarship not
to be held
concurrently
with another.
Supervision by
Minister.
9. (1) The Minister may if he thinks fit and subject to
such conditions as he may consider necessary, grant a free
place student on the ground of need an assistance allowance
for the purpose of assisting him to purchase books or to
maintain himself or for both of these purposes.
(2) The assistance allowance shall be paid in
accordance with rates which the Minister may from time to
time approve.
10. The cost of tuition and assistance allowances given
to free place students shall be paid out of moneys provided
by Parliament.
11. No person shall hold concurrently a free place as
well as a scholarship or similar award administered by the
Government.
12 (1) For the purposes of his education every free
place student by shall be subject to the general supervision of
the Minister.
(2) The Principal or Head of the school which the
free place student attends shall, at the end of each term,
forward to the Minister a report on the work, conduct and
progress of the free place student.
(3) If any free place student is the subject of an
unfavourable report by a Principal or Head, the Minister may,
at his discretion, suspend for one or more terms any or all of
the rights conferred on such free place student under these
Regulations.
(4) If any free place student is the subject of two
consecutive unfavourable reports from a Principal or Head
the Minister may direct that such free place student shall
forfeit the free place and thereupon all rights and privileges
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Continuation of
awards.

Other
scholarships
not to be
affected.
Awards in
1963.

Suspension of
grant-in-aid.
under the free place including any assistance allowance
payable shall determine.
(5) The Minister may, upon such conditions as he
thinks fit, restore to any free place student all or any of the
rights and privileges determined under the provisions of the
last preceding paragraph, if in the opinion of the Minister the
subsequent conduct of the student justifies the restoration.
13. Where any free place was awarded out of moneys
provided by Parliament prior to the commencement of these
Regulations and that free place continues to be held, these
Regulations shall apply in respect of the remainder of the
term of that free place as if it were a free place awarded in
pursuance of these Regulations.
14. These Regulations shall not affect the allocation of
places other in any secondary school by virtue of any
scholarship awarded under any other written law.
15. In respect of that part of the year 1963 remaining
after the Awards in commencement of these Regulations—
(a) regulation 3 (2) and (3) and regulation
4 shall have no application;
(b) the examination shall, in respect of the
provisions of these Regulations other
than those mentioned in paragraph
(a) of this regulation, be the
Secondary Schools Common Entrance
examination conducted by the
Minister on the 10th April, 1963, and
the specified score shall be such score
as the Minister may determine.
16. When a governing body admits any person as a
student to a secondary school except as provided by these
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Regulations, the Minister may, in respect of such school,
direct the Accountant General to suspend the issue of any
grant-in-aid payable under the Secondary Schools
Regulations.
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Reg. 13/1965
14/1967
28/1969
8/1978
GUYANA SCHOLARSHIPS REGULATIONS
made under section 54
Citation.

Interpretation.

Number of
scholarships.

Objective of
award of
scholarship.
Duration.
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Guyana
Scholarships Regulations.
2. In these Regulations—
“examination” means the examination for the scholarship;
“scholar” means the holder of a scholarship; and
“scholarship” means a Guyana scholarship.
3. Six scholarships shall be open to public competition
at an examination to be held once in each year.
4. The objective of the award of the scholarships shall
be to encourage studies in relation to occupational fields
which are relevant to the needs of Guyana.
5. (1) Scholarships shall be for courses of study of not
less than three and not more than six years duration.
Provided that scholarships of six years shall be awarded
only where a scholar will pursue a course of study requiring
such period of time.
(2) The value of the scholarship shall vary according
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to the institution and country in which the scholarship is
tenable, the course of study and its duration.
(3) During the duration of the scholarship, every
scholar shall be entitled to—
(i) (a) a monthly maintenance
allowance; and
(b) an allowance for the purchase
of books; and
(c) an annual allowance for the
purchase of clothing,
at the rates from time to time
determined by the Minister; and
(ii) all expenses for tuition and fees for
the course of study undertaken
pursuant to these regulations; and
(iii) all expenses certified by the
institution of study as being incurred
as a necessary consequence of
undertaking the course of study,
except expenses incurred in travelling
from the usual place of residence of
the scholar to his usual place of study;
and
(iv) the provision of a passage to the place
of study and a return passage to
Guyana after completion of the course
of study, where a scholarship is
tenable in another country:
Provided that the value of
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Competition of
scholarship.

any passage to which a scholar
may be entitled under this
regulation shall be at the
student concessionary or
economy class rate and shall be
based on the cost of air travel
by the most direct and
economical route.
(4) Scholarships shall be tenable at such
universities or other institutions as may be approved by the
Minister.
6. (1) Any person (hereinafter referred to as a
“candidate”) shall be eligible to compete for a scholarship
who—
(a) is not more than nineteen years of age
on the 1st January in the year in which
the examination is held; and—
(b) was born in Guyana, or is the child of
parents at least one of whom
(i) is a citizen of Guyana; or
(ii) has had his permanent
residence in Guyana
throughout the period of five
years immediately preceding
the date of the examination; or
(iii) had established permanent
residence in Guyana not less
than five years before the date
of the examination and died
prior to the date of the
examination; and
(c) had resided therein during the twelve
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months immediately preceding the
date of the examinations; and
(d) is attested by his principal instructor
or instructors in the form of the
certificate set out in the schedule to be
of good moral character; and
(e) (i) had passed a school certificate
examination recognised by the
Minister with credits in not less
than four subjects; or
(ii) has passed a General Certificate
of Education Examination
recognised by the Minister in
less than four subjects at the
ordinary level with not less
than Grade C in each; or
(iii) has obtained a qualification
which, in the opinion of the
Minister is equivalent to any of
the qualifications mentioned in
the foregoing provisions of this
subparagraph.
(2) Every candidate shall apply in writing for
permission to compete for a scholarship stating the three
optional subjects which he has selected under regulation 7(2),
and shall forward the application to the Chief Education
Officer so as to reach him at his office in Georgetown not later
than a date to be notified annually by him in the Gazette.
(2A) Notwithstanding anything contained in
paragraph (2), but subject to the other provisions of these
regulations, an application may be made by any person
eligible under paragraph (1) to compete for a scholarship,
after the date notified for the relevant year under paragraph
(2)–
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Examination.

Report.
(a) permission to compete for a
scholarship;
(b) for a scholarship on the basis of the
results of the examination for the
relevant year already taken by the
applicant,
and if the Minister is satisfied that there was good and
sufficient reason for the delay in making the application, he
may grant the applicant a scholarship.
(3) Each application made under this regulation
shall be accompanied by evidence in writing that the
candidate has satisfied the conditions set out in paragraph (1).
7. (1) The examination shall be the General Certificate
of Education Examination of the University of London,
advanced level or such other examination as may be
determined by the Minister.
(2) Each candidate shall be examined in three
subjects, the subjects being offered at the advanced or
scholarship level; as notified by the Chief Education Officer,
from time to time in the Gazette.
8. (1) The Minister shall base the award of the
scholarship on the order of merit of candidates as stated in a
report on the work of each candidate in each subject,
furnished to him as soon as practicable after each
examination:
Provided that, if in any year the Minister is of the opinion
that the standard of the scholarship disclosed by the report is
not such as to merit the award of a scholarship to a candidate,
the Minister may direct that scholarships be awarded in that
year only to those candidates who have attained the standard
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Medical
certificate.
qualifying for the award of a scholarship.
(2)The Minister may award additional scholarships
in any year when the standard of scholarship disclosed by the
report in respect of candidates other than the successful
candidates is such as in the opinion of the Minister, merits the
award.
(3) A person shall not, at the same time, hold a
scholarship and any other award which, in the opinion of the
Minister, is of equivalent value.
(4) A person to whom a scholarship is awarded
and who holds or is granted an award of the class described
in paragraph (3) shall be required to relinquish either the
scholarship or the award.
9. (1) Not later than two weeks after a candidate has
been informed of the award of the scholarship, he shall come
forward to the Chief Education Officer a medical certificate
certifying that he has been examined by a Government
Medical Officer and found to be medically fit.
(2) Not later than two months after a candidate has
been informed of the award of a scholarship, he shall apply in
writing to the Chief Education Officer for approval of the
university or other institution which he desires to enter and of
the course of study which he proposes to undertake and shall
state the vocation he proposes to follow on the completion of
his studies.
(3) The Chief Education Officer shall invite the
parents or guardian of a scholar to express in writing their or
his views concerning the proposals contained in the
application of the scholar made under this regulation.
(4) The Chief Education Officer shall also invite the
principal instructor of a scholar to submit to him in writing
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Documents to
be forwarded
to Minister.

Entry to
University.

Progress report.
any information concerning the scholar which, in the opinion
of the instructor, may be of assistance to the Minister when
considering the application of the scholar.
10. (1) As soon as practicable after the receipt of the
documents mentioned in regulation 9, the Chief Education
Officer shall forward them, together with his comments
thereon, for the consideration of the Minister.
(2) The Minister may approve the University or
other institutions and the course of study proposed by a
scholar or may direct that a scholar attend some other
university or institution or that he pursue some other course
of study or give both such directions.
(3) A scholar shall be informed of the decisions of
the Minister and shall conform thereto.
(4) Except with the prior approval of the Minister,
no scholar shall change either the university or the institution
or the course of study approved or selected by the Minister.
11. Unless the Minister otherwise approves pursuant
to regulation 10(4), a scholar shall enter the university or
institution approved by the Minister pursuant to regulation
10(2) as soon as practicable after the award of the scholarship
and thereafter shall keep his terms regularly until the
scholarship expires.
12. The Chief Education Officer shall, from time to
time, request from the proper authority of the university or
institution at which a scholar is studying, a report on the
conduct of the scholar and the progress he has made in his
studies.
Provided that a scholar shall authorise the proper
authority to furnish the report in circumstances where such
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Supervision of
scholar.
Conditions
may be
imposed by
Minister.

authorisation is required.
13. During his course of study a scholar shall be under
the supervision and control of the Minister or of such other
person whom the Minister may nominate to exercise such
supervision and control.
14. (1) The Minister may from time to time, without
prejudice to his powers under regulation 10, impose such
other conditions as he may consider necessary for the holding
of a scholarship.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of
paragraph (1), the Minister may, in particular, require a
scholar to—
(a) enter into an agreement to return to
Guyana immediately on completion
of his course of study; and
(b) report to the Permanent Secretary
immediately upon his arrival in
Guyana for instructions regarding
employment; and
(c) accept employment with the
Government. or an employer
approved by the Government, for a
continuous period of not less than five
years:
Provided that failure to offer such employment to the
scholar within four months after the date of his reporting to
the Permanent Secretary shall relieve the scholar of all
obligations under these regulations, and failure on the part of
the scholar to accept any employment so offered shall cause
the entire expended by the Government in connection with
the scholarship to become due and payable for the
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Government; and
(d) undergo training in the organization
known as the Guyana National
Service prior to taking up the award
for a period to be determined by the
Minister:
Provided that if the scholar has commenced his course of
study prior to the award he may be required to return to
Guyana at the expense of the Government during his long
vacation for the purpose of undergoing that period of
training.
(3) The Minister may declare a scholarship to be
forfeited or may reduce the value of a scholarship, or may
take such other disciplinary action as may deem fit, if a
scholar—
(a) is expelled from the university or
institution at which he is studying; or
(b) fails to satisfy the authorities of the
university or institution in any
examination prescribed by them:
Provided that if the scholar furnishes an explanation for
his failure to the satisfaction of the Minister, the Minister after
consultation with the said authorities may decide not to
exercise in relation to the scholar any power conferred on him
by this paragraph; or
(c) fails to fulfil any of the requirements
of these Regulations, unless he
furnishes an explanation for his
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Power of
Minister.

Revocation of
Regulations.

Saving
provision.
Minister; or
(d) engages in any occupation, or activity,
or accepts appointment of the
university or institution, is
detrimental to his progress in the
course of study approved, or selected,
by the Minister.
15. Subject to these Regulations, the Minister shall
have power to decide all questions that may arise in respect of
the administration of these Regulations.
16. The Guyana Scholarship Regulations are hereby
revoked.
17. Notwithstanding regulation 16, any scholarship
being held immediately before the commencement of these
Regulations shall continue to be held in accordance with the
Guyana Scholarship Regulations as if those regulations had
not been revoked.
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R.20/9/1950
1/1953
BAIN GRAY PRIZES (GOVERNMENT
TRAINING COLLEGE AND BROAD STREET
GOVERNMENT SCHOOL) RULES
made under section 50
Citation.

Award of prize.
1. These Rules may be cited as the Bain Gray Prizes
(Government Training College and Broad Street Government
School) Rules.
2. There shall be awarded by the Chief Education
Guyana Scholarships Regulations
Bain Gray Prizes (Government Training College and Broad Street Government
School (Rules)
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Officer in the month of September each year, commencing in
the month of September1951, a prize known as the Bain Gray
Prize to each of the following:
(a) the student teacher at the Government
Training College who in the final year
of the ordinary course obtains the
highest number of points in the
manner hereinafter specified; and
(b) the most outstanding pupil of the
Upper Division of the Broad Street
Government School leaving school
who—
(i) has been on the Register not
less than three years; and
(ii) has made not less than 80 per
cent of the maximum number
of attendances during the three
years immediately preceding
the award,
and who obtains the highest number of points as hereinafter
provided:
Provided that the Chief Education Officer may in any
year award the prize to the candidate obtaining the highest
number of points, notwithstanding that he has failed to make
the number of attendances prescribed by subparagraph (ii),
where such failure has been due to circumstances beyond his
control.
3. Each prize shall consist of books to the value of one-
half of the annual income of the fund for the provision of Bain
Gray Prizes, and such books shall be inscribed with the words
“Government Training College—Bain Gray Prize” or “Broad
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[R.1/1953]
Street Government School—Bain Gray Prize,” as the case may
be.
4. Points shall be awarded—
(a) in respect of a candidate from the
Government Training College, in the
manner following:
(i) for an essay of not less than
5,000 words on an educational
subject. The subject shall be
selected by the student from
subjects set by the Chief
Education Officer each year,
and such choice shall be made
six months before the essays
are to be submitted—50 points;
(ii) character honesty of purpose,
determination to overcome
difficulties, adaptability and co-
operation 50 points;
(b) in respect of a candidate from the
Broad Street Government School—
(i) for school work during the past
three years, including work in
special subjects such as
Gardening, Woodwork,
Handicraft, Domestic Science,
Art and Sewing—50 points;
(ii) the candidates record in extra-
curricular activities—25 points;
(iii) character—25 points.
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