EduCaribbean Weekend
Edition 2020-10-01
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EduCaribbean Weekend is a weekly #PHC #newsletter published on Thursdays which depicts current happenings in the Secondary and Tertiary Education Sectors within the Caribbean Islands, for educational institutions, practitioners, investors, suppliers and students alike.
Laptops scarce - As Government cans face-to-face classes, new challenge emerges
WESTERN BUREAU: Having run into headwinds of opposition from principals and other education stakeholders, the Holness administration has backtracked on its bullish plan to phase in face-to-face classes in October amid a monthlong spike in COVID-19...
‘Shame on them’ - Analyst slams principals for resisting COVID data for school reopening
A critical mass of educators has been criticised for their knee-jerk resistance to a data-driven proposal for the reopening of schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Director of the Mona Geoinformatics Institute, Dr Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr, said that he...
From kinder to college, fully online school launches in Jamaica
Most schools that will be offering online classes come October 5 already existed prior to the pandemic, but this is not the case for El Shaddai Home Schools, which is strictly virtual and intends to cater to students locally and internationally....
Second NRC-UWI Open Campus Online Reparations Lecture On Thursday
Press Release:- The Saint Lucia National Reparations Committee (NRC), in collaboration and cooperation with the UWI’s Center for Reparations Research (CRR) and the UWI Open Campus (Saint Lucia), will on Thursday evening host the second in the monthly s...
ICTP 123: Increasing digital literacy in the Caribbean, with David Soutar of the Carib...
Back in the day, being computer literate was a specifically highlighted skill or requirement in job descriptions for a broad range of positions. Now, the requirement is digital literacy. David Soutar, of the Slashroots Foundation, and of the Caribbean ...
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