Minister of Schooling, Abilities, Youth and Info, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon, has inspired college students of Immaculate Conception Excessive College in Kingston to discover careers of the longer term.
“It’s a must to know the place the world goes so to select your majors properly, since you need to be on the reducing fringe of future. The long run isn’t the standard jobs that we learn about,” she stated.
Dr. Morris Dixon delivered the keynote deal with in the course of the establishment’s prize giving ceremony on Wednesday (December 18), below the theme ‘Channelling Our Franciscan Worth: Embracing Change, Main with Imaginative and prescient’.
She instructed the scholars that, “as we transfer ahead into an period formed by know-how, international connectivity and new concepts, it’s a must to embrace it.”
“The whole lot is altering round us – how we talk, how we do enterprise, how the environment interacts with us. Change has been the default. The query earlier than all of you, together with me, is whether or not or not you’re prepared for this variation. How are you going to embrace all of this variation that’s occurring?” the Minister posited.
The over 1,000 college students who have been recognised for his or her excellent tutorial achievements in the course of the ceremony have been recommended by Senator Morris Dixon, who prolonged, “congratulations to you for placing within the exhausting work.”
In the meantime, the Minister inspired their dad and mom to nurture the opposite components which can be essential to their success, together with being good stewards of what God has blessed them with.
She shared her private story of leaving Jamaica on a Fulbright Scholarship, mentioning that after finishing her PhD, she might have chosen to work in any international agency or college, however, as an alternative, returned house.
“I got here again to Jamaica as a result of I understood that I had been given one thing that a variety of others had not been given. All through our lives, we at all times have a accountability to suppose [and explore] how am I [going to] pay it ahead?” Dr. Morris Dixon acknowledged.
