The Self-Access Learning Centre, located in the Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies, received high commendation from the international jury in this year's Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Managers (CAPAM) International Innovations Awards Programme. The centre will receive a certificate of recognition and its activities will be catalogued for the CAPAM Practice Knowledge Centre. The Self-Access Learning Centre will be featured on CAPAM's website and newsletter and will also be formally acknowledged at the CAPAM Biennial Conference to be held in Sydney, Australia, in September of this year.
The Self-Access Learning Centre was among ten innovations selected as semi-finalists from a field of 113 entries. The Awards Programme aims to recognise smart and innovative practices in the public sector and to share these throughout the Commonwealth. The Self-Access Learning Centre at UTech provides opportunities for members of the university community to upgrade their oral and written language communication skills and allows for self-determined, independent study. The centre was established in 1998 and supports the programme of study in English, Spanish, Japanese, German and French offered by the Liberal Studies Department.
UWI
That Time In Foreign
The Institute of Caribbean Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, will be hosting a lecture series for semester I of the 2006-2007 academic year billed as "That Time In Foreign - Life Stories of Jamaican 'England Returnees'." Professor Frederick Hickling launches the series with a talk entitled, 'Even De John Crow Dem White' on Friday, September 8, at 5:00 p.m. in the Neville Hall Lecture Theatre (N1), UWI, Mona.
Jamaican popular wisdom asserts that England made black people mad. This enlightening lecture series challenges this stereotype, focusing on the experiences of a diverse group of Jamaicans who have all returned home sane after spending time in England. Not quite a jail sentence, that time in foreign created opportunities for personal development. It also revealed the profound challenges faced by Caribbean migrants who wrongly assumed that England was the promised motherland. In this revealing lecture series, speakers will analyse the impact on their lives of institutionalised racism and various other facets of U.K. life.
For further information contact: Lorna Smith, Administrative Assistant, Institute of Caribbean Studies, Faculty of Humanities and Education, The University of the West Indies, Tel: 977-1951; 512-3228 e-mail: icsmona@uwimona.edu.jm or Cecil Gutzmore, Lecturer in Caribbean Studies, Institute of Caribbean Studies at Tel: 425-9558.
Advanced Research Skills Training Workshop
The Epidemiology Research Unit of the Tropical Medicine Research Institute, UWI, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, Jamaica and the Caribbean Health Research Council, Trinidad and Tobago, will host an Advanced Research Skills Training Workshop from September 19-21. The venue will be the computer laboratory at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social & Economic Studies, UWI Mona.
The training offered by the workshop sessions will enable participants to: design a questionnaire to be used for data collection; use a statistical package to conduct data analysis; enter & process data collected and review & critique scientific literature
Available spaces are limited and participants will be accepted on a 'first come, first served' basis. The cost of attending the workshop is J$5,000.00. Completed registration forms and payment must be submitted by September 15. For additional information and to obtain registration forms kindly contact Ayesha Johnson, Ministry of Health, by e-mail: johnsona@moh.gov.jm, or call - 967 1100 ext. 2588.
