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Jun
28
Skills education and the fourth Industrial Revolution
Long before Prime Minister Andrew Holness declared that there does not exist sufficiently trained workers in present-day Jamaica to meet the necessity of economic growth and job creation, at a recent appreciation function for retired Spalding High School Principal Alphansus Davis, I had formed the view that Jamaica faces a grave skills gap of its [...]
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Jun
28
Overcoming lost time away from the classroom
I recently participated in a virtual online forum involving some 217 post-grade 11 (fifth form) high school seniors designed to review their ongoing tertiary educational journey under the restricting and severely altering circumstances of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Since then, I am more than ever convinced that every effort must now be expended by the [...]
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