CMI: Showing how to do education the right way...

[Don1]

i.e. Education appropriate for the 21st Century...Not the 20th
Lessons for Secondary & Tertiary schools:

* Teach more by DOING...not mere rote instruction & regurgitation

* Focus more on INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRY CERTIFICATION...Not merely increasingly irrelevant local examinations (CXC ) producing relatively worthless pieces of paper

* Prioritize STEM Education...Not "traditional" English grammar school follies

Will Jamaicans ever learn???

Caribbean Maritime Institute - Smooth Sailing To Success

Published:Friday | January 15, 2016 | 12:04 AM
Jermaine Barnaby

Executive director Fritz Pinnock noted that the CMI has received a number of global awards from places such as Oman and Switzerland, which have recognised the Jamaican standard bearer as, among other things, a world business leader in education and a global quality ambassador.

Pinnock explained the defining philosophy that has transformed the CMI into a global leader and continues to set it apart and ahead of other tertiary institutions.

"All our degrees, we align them with professional standards because this is what the world is looking for, people who can produce in the professional space, so that's part of our new mandate. So we follow the market, unlike other institutions that create a programme, then go and look for students to come in the programme and then you find the programme is misaligned to the industry. We go to the industry first, find out what their needs are and work backwards and create the training programmes. This explains why we have the highest placement of graduates among all the tertiary institutions throughout Jamaica despite the recession, because we position our people for the global marketplace."

The need to mix academics with professionalism is a wave of the future that the soon-to-be university has been riding for quite some time.

He explained: "All of our degree programmes we seek to align them with professional standards, so the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the United Kingdom - which is the body internationally that certifies and accredits logistics and supply chain programmes - we are the first in the Caribbean and the Americas too to receive full accreditation from them for the degree programmes. So all of our graduates, when they finish these programmes, are accepted as members of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, so the academic degrees carry a professional backing."

One of the exciting new programmes set to get under way this year will offer training in mechatronics - a multidisciplinary field of engineering that includes a combination of systems engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, telecommunications engineering, control engineering and computer engineering. Its objective is a design process that unifies these subfields of engineerings.

[Don1]

Military Industrial Complex bats for less Tests.. more Apps

Even while bunnin' Babylon wikidness...wi gots to learn from dem

Technology Tomorrow

More Learning, Less Testing to Boost STEM
January 2016
By Stew Magnuson

If the nation wants to create a healthy stream of science, engineering, technology and math graduates to fill the 21st century jobs of the future, maybe it ought to scrap its 18th century educational system.

Education is a hot button issue and just about everyone has an opinion on what works and what doesn’t. For those who haven’t been paying attention, the U.S educational system went mad over the past 15 years doubling down on a model of teaching children invented at the dawn of the industrial age. The teachers, standing before rows and rows of children, stuff them full of facts and figures, test them, then move them along to the next grade — kind of like a Model-T in a Ford factory. No Child Left Behind, which called for accountability from schools, doubled-down on this antiquated system, especially the testing part.

The new Every Student Succeeds Act will allow states to take more control of their education systems, but unfortunately leaves in place much of the incessant testing.

The defense and aerospace workers of the 21st century will need more than expertise in STEM fields. They will need to be creative, critical thinkers, and they will need to know how to work in teams to solve problems. Most of this can be learned in our schools, but little of it will show up on a standardized test.