In perusing the composition of the staff at the Faculty of Education and Humanities of University of Guyana, there seems a great ethnic imbalance that needs immediate redress. Indians, Amerindians, and Mixed are seriously under-represented. The VC of UG, Paloma Mohamed Martin, a Guyanese of Mixed ancestry, needs to pay attention to the below table and take measures to bring ethnic balance. One needs to be sensitive to the ethnic mix of the population that is racially divided. Amerindians are not chopped liver; they need to be on staff. Also, greater numbers of Indians and Mixed should be hired to have relative parity with Africans. Racial Composition of Faculty of Dept of Education & Humanities
| Indians | Africans | Mixed | Amerind | Others | Total | |
| Number | 02 | 24 | 02 | 00 | 00 | 28 |
| % | 07 | 86 | 07 | 00 | 00 | 100 |
| % pop* | 40 | 29 | 19 | 11 | 01 | 100 |
- Approximate composition of population
The faculty of the Department of Education and Humanities of UG under the coalition administration and thru the Fall term of 2020 is lopsidedly of one ethnicity. There is 28 teaching staff, of who 24 are Africans and 2 Indians and two Mixed. There is no Amerindian on staff. This is a ratio of twelve (12) to one (1) Indian and twelve to one Mixed. Of the 27 faculty members, only 4 have a PhD – 15% (Dean, Deputy Dean, Senior Lecturer, and one Lecturer II. Interestingly, the Dean and head of Faculty (Department) of Education and Humanities, Dr Roslyn Khan, a Mixed Guyanese, was not promoted to a Deputy VC. But Melissa Ifill, a Pan-Africanist ideologue, and Emanuel Cummings, who served as head of the Search Committee to select the VC, were both promoted to Deputy VC. Clearly, there is a need to recruit more scholars with doctorate as teaching staff and to have a greater ethnic mix that reflects the racial composition of the nation as shown in the table.Attachments area
