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GOVERNMENT TRAINING COLLEGE ACT
CHAPTER 39:03
Act
2 of 1877
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CHAPTER 39:03
GOVERNMENT TRAINING COLLEGE ACT
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
SECTION
1. Short title.
2. Establishment of College.
3. Principal and lecturers.
4. Attendants and servants.
5. Primary school to be attached to the College.
6. Entrance examination.
7. Residence of person admitted.
8. Management of the College.
9. Expulsion from the College.
10. Annual report of the College.
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c. 199
1953 Ed.
c. 92 _______________________________________________________
2 of 1877 An Act to establish and regulate an Institution for the
Training of Teachers for Primary Schools.
[7TH NOVEMBER, 1877]
Short title.

Establishment
of College.

Principal and
lecturers.
1. This Act may be cited as the Government Training
College Act.
2. A College, to be called “The Government Training
College of Guyana”, shall be established at which both male
and female persons may be properly trained to become
efficient teachers for primary schools.
3. There shall be a Principal and such number of
lecturers as are considered by the Minister to be necessary for
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Attendants and
servants

Primary school
to be attached
to the College.
Entrance
examination.
Residence of
person
admitted.

Management of
the College.
the purposes of this Act.
4. There shall be such number of attendants and
servants as may be considered by the Principal with the
approval of the Minister to be necessary for the proper
functioning of the College.
5. (1) There shall be attached to the College a primary
school, which may be used by the persons who are being
trained at the College as a practising school.
(2) The school shall be a Government school, and
provision shall be made for the instruction there of boys, girls
and infants.
6. Before any person is admitted to be trained in the
College he shall pass the examination prescribed for that
purpose by the Chief Education Officer.
7. Every person admitted to be trained in the College
shall, except during the vacations or when sick, be bound to
reside there, unless he receives permission from the Principal,
with the sanction of the Chief Education Officer to reside
elsewhere.
8. The College shall be under the management and
control of the Chief Education Officer, whose duty it shall be,
subject to affirmative resolution of the National Assembly, to
frame regulations for the following purposes:
(a) for regulating—
(i) the age at which persons may
be admitted into the College,
the examination to be passed
before admission, and the
qualifications for admission;
(ii) the course of training, the
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Expulsion from
the College.

Annual report
of the College.
manner and method of
instruction, and the hours of
study;
(iii) the diet;
(iv) the punishments which may be
inflicted for misconduct;
(v) the examinations which each
person shall be periodically
required to pass;
(vi) the fees which shall be payable
by the persons being trained
therein;
(vii) the government school attached
to the College;
(b) for ensuring the proper separation of
the sexes; and
(c) generally, for the good government
and management of the College.
9. No person shall be finally expelled from the College
until the expulsion of that person has been approved of by the
Chief Education Officer.
10. The Principal shall submit to the Minister, to be
laid before the National Assembly, in the month of January, in
each year, a full report of the working of the College,
including the working of the Government school attached
thereto, and of the progress made by the persons who have
been trained at the College, during the then preceding year.
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