Memorandum to the Minister of Education
 

MEMORANDUM

From:             The Language Policy and Language Rights Informal Working Group

To:                  The Honourable Rupert Roopnaraine, Minister of Education

Date:               May 10, 2016

Subject:          Language Rights, Language Education Policy and Curriculum Reform

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Dear Minister Roopnaraine,

This is a memorandum requesting immediate action in two major areas of human rights and education policy in Guyana:

A. language rights and language education policy, and

B. institutional support for the working group to conduct a language attitudes survey and a language competence survey across Guyana

C. with support from the International Centre for Caribbean Language Research, UWI (ICCLR-UWI) phased implementation of curriculum reform strategies across the education system to allow for access to literacy and education in the two widely used languages of the country, Creolese and English, based on the principle of the maintenance of the home language as one of main languages of education.

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