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The university was founded as the Jamaica Institute of Technology in 1958. The following year it was incorporated as the College of Arts, Science and Technology (CAST), and was formally recognised by an Act of Parliament in 1964. It was granted degree awarding powers in 1986 and a governing council and academic board were established.
Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) serves multiple purposes. A key purpose is preparation of youth for work. This takes the form of learning and developing work related skills and mastery of underlying knowledge and scientific principles. Work is broadly defined and therefore refers to both formal employment and self-employment.
The Caribbean Centre of Excellence for Teacher Training ( Caribbean CETT) is an organization which seeks to enhance the quality of teacher training in the Caribbean. It came into existence as part of a USAID -funded Presidential Initiative established at the 2001 Summit of the Americas, held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
St. Joseph's Teachers' College. St. Joseph's Teachers' College is a Roman Catholic teacher training college in Kingston, Jamaica. It was founded in 1897 by the Franciscan Sisters of Allegany, a religious order in the Roman Catholic Church in Jamaica . The college campus contains dormitories to accommodate students from more distant areas.
Caribbean Maritime University. Redefining maritime excellence through innovation and technology. The Caribbean Maritime University is a Jamaican higher education institution specialising in maritime education and training. Its primary campus is located on the Palisadoes Park, overlooking the Kingston Harbour .
Website. ucc .edu .jm. The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean is one of Jamaica's largest privately held tertiary education institutions operating 7 campuses: [1] in six parishes across Jamaica. As of 2017, the University offers professional certificate, diploma, associate, bachelor's and master's degree programs, as well as customized ...
Northern Caribbean University (NCU) is a private, liberal-arts institution owned and operated by the Jamaica Union Conference (JMUC) and the Atlantic Caribbean Union (ATCU) of Seventh-day Adventists, and is located in Jamaica. With its main campus only 2 miles south of Mandeville town, in Manchester, and three other campuses situated in ...
Education in Jamaica is primarily modeled on the British education system. The Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI) [1] finds that Jamaica is fulfilling only 70.0% of what it should be fulfilling for the right to education based on the country's level of income. [2] HRMI breaks down the right to education by looking at the rights to both ...