BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – The Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) is collaborating with the CARICOM Secretariat, and Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS)Commission to facilitate the training of approximately 15,000 educators in skills to assist their students to overcome the learning losses caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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CASTRIES, St. Lucia – The Barbados-based Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) Monday expressed its concern at “the great number of students” leaving the education system without certification and is moving towards developing a program to deal with the situation.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's government on Monday confirmed that an estimated 167 teachers had left their positions in the school system here over the past two months.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Grenada’s Opposition Leader, Dr. Keith Mitchell, will deliver the feature address at the inaugural virtual “Frontiers of Research in Caribbean Science and Technology (FORECAST) Conference 2022” that gets underway on Tuesday.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados – Representatives from 10 Latin American and Caribbean countries (LAC) are in Brazil participating in an international technical mission organized by the trilateral south-south cooperation project Consolidation of School Feeding Programs in LAC.
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – The Antigua and Barbuda government says it intends to spend an estimated US$39 million towards the expansion of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Five Island Campus here.
Kingston, Jamaica – Youth participants recently wrapped up the Level II intermediate course of IGT’s Coding and Robotics Rock! Camp and anticipation is high for the incoming students of its Level I introductory course in a few weeks.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The University of Guyana is set to commence the new academic year 2022/23 with orientation sessions for new and continuing students beginning from September 5 through to 10.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – Former Grenada prime minister, Dr. Keith Mitchell Wednesday said that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the birth of new businesses as well as social dispensation for work and leisure.
ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada – The medical program at the St. George’s University School of Medicine has been reaccredited by members of the Grenada Medical and Dental Council (GMDC), for a period eight years or until the year 2030.
KINGSTON, Jamaica – The University of the West Indies (The UWI), seeking to earn a net of US$250million, Friday said it had approved five-year strategic plan as it seeks to build on the success of the regional university’s “soaring reputation” over the past five years.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Organization of American States (OAS) says it is collaborating with ProFuturo, the digital education program of Fundación Telefónica Movistar and Fundación “la Caixa,” to identify the best practices in digital education in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent – President of the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers’ Union Oswald Robinson is accusing the Unity Labour Party (ULP) government of using the COVID-19 vaccine mandate to “assassinate” teachers economically.