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OPSR and education ministry close ranks to merge ICT within education system

Contact: Kerwin Xavier

Thursday 21 October 2010 –  The Ministry of Education and Culture, in collaboration with the Office of Private Sector Relations (OPSR), held the first in a series of consultations yesterday on “The integration of Information Communication Technologies”, ICT within the education system. 

The key objectives of the exercises are to:

·        Assist the Ministry of Education in ascertaining the ICT needs in the work place

·        Determine the level of readiness of the education system to effectively incorporate ICT in Technical Vocational education and Training (TVET)

·        Ascertain the national requirements for the full integration of ICT into the TVET curricula and the general curricula

·        Contribute to the national effort/requirement to fully implement the harmonized Caribbean Vocational Qualification (CVQ)

·        Contribute to the strengthening of the link between the Technical Vocational Education and Training school curricula and the requirements of the job market.

Upon completion, a road map for incorporating ICT in TVET for all schools will be hammered out along with proposals for providing training to the Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) educators. 

To this end,  a supplier has already been contracted to procure computer based education delivery software aimed at transforming the delivery of TVET in Saint Lucia.

The funds of the OPSR programme STRIDE – (Strengthening Trade Through Rural Investment and Development of Entrepreneurship) will be used as part of the pilot project in five secondary schools.

The software modules to be procured and deployed at the schools are:

·        Small Engines – Grand Riviere Secondary School

·        Electrical and plumbing – Centre for Adolescent Rehabilitation and Education (CARE)

·        Agribusiness Concepts – Marigot Secondary school

·        Computer Aided Drafting and Design – Soufriere Comprehensive Secondary School

·        Food Production Services – Castries Comprehensive Secondary School.

The firm Dunn, Pierre Barnette and Associates of Jamaica, are awarded the contract to undertake the consultancy.  The scheduled completion is December, 2010.

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