EDITOR’S NOTE: At the beginning of February, #eduCaribbean featured Caribbean STEM education, in our edition 2021-02-08. We do the same in this newsletter. Three countries are covered, namely: Guyana, The Bahamas, and Jamaica. The Bahamas has a single article, while the others have two articles apiece. Additional content may be found in our Twitter feed.
Our headline, taken from News Room, reads: “UG Partners With Haliburton To Prep Students For Petroleum Engineering”. One of the world’s largest oil field service companies – Halliburton – has gifted the Faculty of Engineering and Technology, at the University Of Guyana (UG), Turkeyen Campus, with a Drilling Fluids (MUD) Lab and services valued at US$2.2 Million.
Guyana’s Ministry of Education has also partnered with the Commonwealth of Learning to offer free six-month online training programmes by Udemy, Grow with Google and Coursera to 800 Guyanese. Otherwise, the U.S. Embassy has partnered with Primo Energy to donate sustainable energy technologies and curriculum to St. John’s College, Nassau, The Bahamas.
In Jamaica, National Baking Company Foundation will contribute US$1 million over 6 years for a STEM teacher education programme to be administered by the University of the West Indies (UWI). Finally, The Ministry of Education has partnered with Amber Innovations Group Limited, to introduce coding into 20 public educational institutions across Jamaica.
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