Dr. Maureen Samms-Vaughan (left), executive director of the Early Childhood Commission shares a joke with Paulette Dunn-Smith, senior director of NCTVET after the signing yesterday of a Memorandum of Understanding at the HEART/Trust NTA's boardroom at 6A Oxford Road, New Kingston. - RUDOLPH BROWN/CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER
A MAJOR advance was made in the education sector yesterday with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Early Childhood Commission (ECC) and the National Council on Technical and Vocational Education and Training (NCTVET).
According to the commission, the partnership with the NCTVET will provide for adequate training and development of a competent and certified workforce with emphasis on the Early Childhood sector.
"The NCTVET develops facility standards and we are at a point where we are sure that the establishment is able to deliver quality training so that individuals who are trained, are certified to world-class standards," Paulette Dunn-Smith, senior director at the NCTVET said.
AN IMPORTANT PARTNERSHIP
Noting that the qualification of individuals who work with children were crucial to their development, Dr. Maureen Samms-Vaughan, executive chairman of the ECC described the partnership as an important one.
"There is nothing more important than shaping the brains and minds of young children," she said. She emphasised that the partnership with the NCTVET will produce the occupational standards of a high quality to ensure that students get the best education.
