Labour Market Forum 2010 - Planning Institute of Jamaica
Labour Market Forum 2010 - Planning Institute of Jamaica
Labour Market Forum 2010 - Planning Institute of Jamaica
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Education and Training<br />
Many <strong>Jamaica</strong>n teachers have emigrated and established an<br />
excellent reputation overseas.<br />
There is an opportunity for<br />
private schools and colleges to <strong>of</strong>fer a high quality education<br />
right here in <strong>Jamaica</strong> to an international clientele. St. George’s<br />
University in the Eastern Caribbean that was sold for over<br />
US$200 million a few years ago had originally sought to establish<br />
itself in <strong>Jamaica</strong> but did not find a welcoming Government.<br />
Today private colleges are a booming business in <strong>Jamaica</strong>. The<br />
University College <strong>of</strong> the Caribbean is the most obviously<br />
successful but there are many others. We need to create many<br />
others.<br />
There is an obvious and untapped market in the <strong>Jamaica</strong>n<br />
Diaspora where many families would like their foreign-born<br />
children to be schooled and socialized in traditional <strong>Jamaica</strong>n<br />
values to counteract the negative influences that the public<br />
school systems in North America and the United Kingdom seem<br />
to <strong>of</strong>fer. There is an opportunity here.<br />
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