As part of the partnership between the University of Guyana (UG) and the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar (UCAD), the UG will be hosting five teacher-researchers from the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar during the week of 9 March 2020.
C ive lecturers from UCAD will be visiting the University of Guyana for around a week. The visit is a result of the partnership between the two institutions, which involves exchanges of both students and teaching staff. The University will be honoured to welcome :
- Papa Alioune Sarr NDIAYE, Director of the École Supérieure Polytechnique (ESP) at UCAD
- Mamadou Lamine NDIAYE, Head of Cooperation and Research at the ESP (UCAD)
- Abdoulaye DIENG, Electrical Engineering Department, ESP (UCAD)
- Mandicou BA, from the Computer Engineering department at the ESP (UCAD)
- Denis Assane DIOUF, of UCAD's Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Professors DIENG and BA will be lecturing in the vocational bachelor's degrees in Computer Networks and Telecommunications (MRIT) and Mastering Energy, Electricity and Sustainable Development (MEED) at the Kourou IUT, while Professor DIOUF will be teaching in the 2nd year of the bachelor's degree in literature at the Lettres et Sciences Humaines department, as part of the "Introduction to French-speaking African literature" course. Professor Mamadou Lamine NDIAYE will be giving a lecture on the "energy transition in an African context" on Monday 9 March at 6pm in amphitheatre E. Professor Denis Assane DIOUF will be giving a lecture on "Léopold Sédar Senghor: l'héritage d'un penseur, poète et politique" (Léopold Sédar Senghor: the legacy of a thinker, poet and politician), on Thursday 12 March at 6pm in amphitheatre A.
Numerous exchanges between the two establishments
Since the signing of the framework cooperation agreement between the University of Guyana and Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar in May 2017, several actions have been implemented. An educational trip to Senegal, under the theme "GUYANE-SENEGAL: Revisiting a shared history" was organised by the Lettres et Sciences humaines (LSH) department in March 2018. Three teacher-researchers from UCAD's Faculty of Letters and Humanities were invited to the UG in 2017 and 2018 for teaching and lectures. A research seminar on "the sustainability of tropical fisheries", co-organised by the UG's LEEISA laboratory and UCAD's Institut Universitaire de Pêche et d'Aquaculture (IUPA), was held in October 2018 in Dakar. In addition, this partnership gives UG students the opportunity to carry out internships in Senegal. Eight students have already completed their placements in Dakar (three in 2018 and five in 2019). In May 2020, 7 students from the Kourou IUT will travel to Dakar as part of their compulsory work placements. Study visits are planned for the last quarter of 2020.
