The Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Sir Ronald Sanders, has announced that considerable progress has been made in the search for a suitable candidate for the post of Vice-Chancellor.

Advertisements for the position attracted twenty-seven applications from Guyana, the wider Caribbean, Canada, and India. After an initial review, the Search Committee reduced the number of applicants to fifteen candidates for further consideration. The Committee then sought the assistance of professors and other university specialists of considerable stature in the United Kingdom to help assess the academic credentials of the candidates and to support the preparation of a final shortlist of five.

The five shortlisted candidates will now move to the next stage of the process, which will include interviews and public lectures before a final decision is made.