A School of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation is on stream for the University of Guyana [UG]. This is according to Vice Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Professor Ivelaw Griffith, who revealed that the University will be gaining instrumental support from the Government of Mexico to realise this venture.
According to the Vice Chancellor, “the Ambassador himself is one of the strong advocates testifying before the University Council among other places as we move to establish a school of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation.” Professor Griffith was at the time making reference to Mexican Ambassador to Guyana, Mr. Ivan Roberto Sierra Medel.
Professor Griffith explained that an important element of the new proposed addition to the university is “we are asking that each student that graduates from that school of Entrepreneurship and Business Innovation has one language other than English. Spanish will be one of those languages [as well as] Mandarin and Portuguese, and Mexico has committed to enabling us to deliver the instructional reality where Spanish is concerned.”
The strategic collaboration with Mexico comes as part of a renaissance project being pursued by the national university under the guidance of Vice Chancellor Griffith. The project he explained is taking what some might call a non-traditional path since it is characterised by the “building of friendships and partnerships in a variety of ways.”
According to Professor Griffith, “I want to signal the differentiation and the variety of our pursuits by having the evidence of one of those elements of the pursuits or partnership with Mexico be reflective of the significant strides of the renaissance that we are making.”