UG to offer business related short courses
THE University of Guyana (UG) Tain Campus is to commence short courses to ensure a consumer friendly business environment and increase customer satisfaction.
The Director, Professor Daizal Samad said the training will be in written and oral communication, ethics and ethical behaviour, acceptable or desirable modes of behaviour in business and service environments, practical mathematics and Information Technology.
He made the announcement in an address at the Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association (BCCDA) 78th annual luncheon, hosted in Little Rock Suites, New Amsterdam, also in Berbice, on Sunday.
Among those in the audience were the Guest Speaker, Mr. Marco Nicola, Country Representative of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); Mr. Ramesh Dookhoo of the Private Sector Commission (PSC); Mr Daniel Gajie of the National Association of Regional Chambers of Commerce; Mr. Gyandat Murray, President of BCCDA, executives and members of sister Chambers of Commerce in  Berbice.
Samad said, since he assumed the post more than a year ago, Tain has enjoyed a close working relationship with the Berbice Chambers and banking institutions.
Describing UG as a business, he said it is unlike any other businesses, as attending students are clients as well as products.
Samad said students, parents, sponsors and the Government invest large sums of money in order that entry level scholars become better and more learned  citizens.
“If we fail to make our clients and products the best that they can be, then we fail in our enterprise. In some way or other, we are all involved in quality production and that quality must be measurably assured. Educational standards are important but so is fiscal responsibility. Without the latter, the former suffers. And, if educational standards suffer, then we will fail in our endeavour to build a civic society in Berbice and Guyana. For, make no mistake about it, we are involved in the difficult job of creating or recreating a civic society from ground up. This is the job of the UG Berbice Campus and it ought to be what we are all enjoined to achieve,” he stated.
Samad said UG must be attentive to all levels of education, nursery, primary and secondary, as well as teacher training through university education.
“We must work in concord with socio-religious groups, security and peace-keeping sectors, health and its delivery sectors, quality assurance bodies, ministries of government and, importantly, the business community,” he urged.
Samad said a more educated society is, inevitably, a prosperous, progressive, healthier and safer society.
“An educated society is one in which people care for each other; there is grace of communication and behaviour. In such a society, the diseases of racism, nepotism, violence, crime and corruption are cured,” he offered.