UTT signs education MOU

Speaking at the signing ceremony at the National Academy for the Performing Arts in Port-of-Spain, Education Minister Anthony Garcia said this consortium will provide a pipeline to channel collaborative activities including the recruitment and exchange of students between participating Caribbean institutions and the Medgar Evers College and other US institutions.

The other universities involved include University of Guyana and EGC Martinique Business School. Garcia said the consortium’s objective is to foster and promote academic collaboration aimed at addressing the economic and social challenges affecting historically disadvantaged people and developing countries.

“And explore and develop new curricula to address the challenges of the changing global environment to serve as a centre for harmonising the efforts of member institutions in the obtaining of the objectives set out and a key driver in all of this is to ensure a Caribbean diaspora fund to invest in education opportunities,” he said.

The minster said the aim of consortium is to establish new programmes relevant to the development of the Caribbean community and the diaspora allowing for articulation student and staff mobility and joint awards.

“It is our desire to ensure that every citizen is afforded the opportunity to improve himself. Be it in the traditional academic areas or the technical vocational field. When our citizens thrive our societies will do well.

This is why it is with great pleasure that we welcome initiatives of this nature which support the development of our human capital.

“As we scan the region, this collaboration will benefit the wider Caribbean as more institutions align themselves to the Consortium creating opportunities for citizens across the region and contributing to its growth as well,” he said. UCIEC Chairman and President of Medgar Evers College Rudy Crew said the consortium was about committing to a set of strategies that are intended to engage and build human capital and share that human capital across the border.