{"id":30192,"date":"2026-06-01T20:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=30192"},"modified":"2026-06-01T20:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:03:27","slug":"goal-reports-strong-demand-for-2026-intake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/goal-reports-strong-demand-for-2026-intake\/","title":{"rendered":"GOAL reports strong demand for 2026 intake"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by David Clarke<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Demand for GOAL scholarships continues to grow, with more than 14,000 already granted during the program&#8217;s first 2026 intake.\u00a0Hundreds more applications have already been received for the second round, as the initiative expands access to higher education and skills training across Guyana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) is reporting another strong response from Guyanese seeking access to tertiary education,\u00a0with more than 14,000 scholarships already awarded during the first round of applications for 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Programme Director, Professor Jacob Opadeyi says interest in the initiative continues to grow,\u00a0with more than 500 applications received within the first three days of the program&#8217;s second intake for the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We opened up the application again for the second time this year, and there will be a third time again this year,\u00a0because the mandate of the Government is that anybody who wants to study and they are qualified, we can&#8217;t say no to them,&#8221; he explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The programme&#8217;s continued growth has been supported by increased government investment.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professor Opadeyi noted that while GOAL requested approximately $3.5 billion in funding, it received $5.7 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;So we are excited at the fact that the GOAL scholarship is now well understood by the population, and there&#8217;s increase in demand for knowledge,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With increased budgetary support this year, Professor Opadeyi says GOAL now has the fiscal space to confidently fulfill its mandate\u00a0of providing unlimited scholarship opportunities to Guyanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by David Clarke Demand for GOAL scholarships continues to grow, with more than 14,000 already granted during the program&#8217;s first 2026 intake.\u00a0Hundreds more applications have already been received for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,365,350],"tags":[488,606,370,412,405],"class_list":["post-30192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-human-development","category-news","tag-488","tag-goal","tag-guyana","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30194,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30192\/revisions\/30194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}