Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, says lecturers have a key function to play in equipping the labour drive with the talents required by trade which are very important for a rustic’s progress and growth.
Addressing college students and school of The Mico College Faculty on the establishment’s Marescaux Highway location in Kingston on Wednesday (Might 7), the Prime Minister famous that Jamaica is experiencing a singular interval in its historical past, the place the constraints to financial progress will not be resulting from an absence of capital however the scarcity of expert labourers.
He stated that the financial system is now demanding extra engineers, technicians, healthcare professionals, knowledge analysts, knowledge scientists, programmers and other people concerned in robotics and mechatronics.
Consequently, he famous, the nation wants extra educators who can educate these rising professions and abilities.
“We’re trying to get onto one other rung on the ladder of growth however that rung requires the next stage of ability in our inhabitants, and to get that, you’re vital to this.
“The Mico College, all our tertiary establishments and, specifically, those that are concerned in trainer coaching, you’re, due to this fact, important to releasing this binding constraint on our progress potential,” Dr. Holness famous, throughout his Lecturers’ Day go to.
It is because of this, he stated, that human capital is a central a part of the expansion mannequin below the Authorities’s ASPIRE Jamaica Programme.
“Underneath the ASPIRE framework – our complete plan for financial transformation – the P stands for individuals and human capital growth. We’re placing individuals on the coronary heart of our progress mannequin as a result of no nation can develop quicker than its schooling system permits. If human capital is our engine of progress, then schooling is the gasoline that powers it,” Dr. Holness reasoned.
“That makes your function as college students and educators completely very important. You aren’t spectators on this course of. You might be central gamers,” he famous.
The Prime Minister lauded the coed lecturers and trainer trainers, referring to them as “torchbearers of information and the architects of our nation’s future, guiding generations of Jamaicans in direction of their full potential”.
He stated that the Lecturers’ Day theme, ‘Safeguarding the Way forward for Schooling: Adapting to the Altering Panorama’, is each well timed and pressing and is immediately related to the nation’s priorities.
“It challenges us to suppose not nearly how we educate but in addition why we educate and what sort of society we’re making ready our younger individuals to inherit, navigate and lead,” Dr. Holness stated.
The Prime Minister applauded The Mico College Faculty for its greater than 180 years of trainer coaching and its contribution to nation-building by way of its function in shaping the minds of younger Jamaicans.
President of The Mico College Faculty, Dr. Asburn Pinnock, stated the establishment, which has produced near 80 per cent of Jamaica’s educators, has had worldwide influence.
“Our college students are Jamaica’s future educators, poised to form our nation with creativity and braveness. Our school leads in analysis and pedagogy, which is why we’re leaders in STEM (science, know-how, engineering and maths) and particular schooling, producing college students who will excel to broaden our neighborhood. Mr. Prime Minister, our alumni stretch from Kingston to Accra [in Ghana], Montego Bay to Ontario [in Canada],” Dr. Pinnock acknowledged, including that the establishment affords 12 bachelor’s diploma and 5 grasp’s diploma programmes.
He stated that due to its quite a few achievements and international influence the stakeholders are impressed to maintain the legacy of The Mico College Faculty.
