UG Berbice campus in financial meltdown – Samad

…blames Turkeyen’s “dictatorship”

Outgoing University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) Director, Professor Daizal R. Samad has stated that the campus is in a financial meltdown and that the campus’s budget is in tatters while the institution is operating in a deficit.
Samad resigned early July from his position. It will take effect in October. The Guyana Government allocates more than $200M annually to UGBC. Prof. Samad has stated that he cannot work under the “dictatorial policies” of Turkeyen. The situation over the months, he said, has become much worse.
Relations with the new Vice- Chancellor, Prof. Jacob Opadeyi, too, have become distant and tumultuous over the past months. He believes Turkeyen is responsible for the ultimate destruction of UGBC and has called for the government to intervene or watch UGBC collapse.
Prof. Samad decried that millions of dollars are spent every week shuttling UGBC lecturers to Georgetown for meetings and other unnecessary and minute things… “meetings to set a couple of questions for exams; meetings for marking the exams, how you mark, to check the marks; meeting to photocopy exam papers;’ to pick them up; to bring them up, and so on—that’s a lot of money!”
He alleged, too, that millions are being spent for those meetings, “so you’re spending tens of millions of dollars to do what?”
He believes that with prudent financial management, UGBC can keep the student tuition to $127,000.