UTech, Jamaica 60th Anniversary Newspaper Supplement

Special Advertisement 15 THE DAILY OBSERVER SUNDAY JULY 22, 2018 twitter.com/jamaicaobserver www.jamaicaobserver.com The Faculty of The Built Environment provides training in the disciplines of architecture, land surveying, geographic information sciences, urban and regional planning, land economy and valuation surveying, quantity surveying, structural engineering, construction engineering, and construction management. This is the place to be for those who desire to build a professional career in any of these profession-oriented fields. The Faculty comprises the School of Building and Land Management and the Caribbean School of Architecture. The schools deliver a wide range of undergraduate certificate, diploma and degree programmes together with a postgraduate diploma and a Master's degree. In addition, faculty members are actively involved in research and consultancy relating to issues of the Built Environment. Since its inception in 1988, the Caribbean School of Architecture’s undergraduate degree Programme, Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies (BAAS), and professional degree Programme, Master of Architecture (MArch) have received continuous international validation from the Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA). Students are exposed to real-world learning experiences through internships, study tours, field exercises, site visits, work-related and community-related projects. Faculty of The Built Environment Dr. Garfield Young, Dean Third year Caribbean School of Architecture student, Madison Powell explains the model of Pointe-à-Pitre that formed part of the students’ presentation following a study tour of Guadeloupe in 2017. Listening intently are His Excellency Jean-Michel Despax (centre) French Ambassador to Jamaica and Professor Stephen Vasciannie, CD, President, UTech, Jamaica who were on a visit and tour of the Faculty of The Built Environment. The College of Health Sciences offers a wide range of graduate and undergraduate courses for the development of health professionals for the local, regional and global markets. The College is also extensively engaged in conducting research to address and to provide solutions to health care problems in the Jamaica and region. The College is comprised of the Caribbean School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy and School of Allied Health & Wellness. Through its three Schools, the College prepares health professionals such as midwives, nurses - including specialists in critical care and anaesthesiology, dieticians, nutritionists, medical technologists, Health Record and Child Care and Development professionals, pharmacists, pharmaceutical technologists and pharmacy technicians. The curriculum is flexible and is designed to foster rounded academic and personal development with an emphasis on professional experiential learning to enable workplace readiness. Several of our programmes are now offered using the Distance/online delivery modality. The Ministry of Education in 2008 divested its nursing education programmes, which were formerly delivered by the Ministry of Health, to UTech, Jamaica. In 1999, the Government, through a Cabinet Decision transferred training functions from the Ministry of Health to the Ministry of Education. The Ministry of Education approved UTech, Jamaica as the specialist institution to carry out selected training functions to satisfy the new Government policy. Under the Agreement, since August 1, 2007, the training programmes for Nurse Anaesthetist, Critical Care Nursing and Nursing and Midwifery were transferred to UTech, Jamaica.The first cohort of nursing students began studies for the Bachelor of Science (Nursing) programme in September 2007. College of Health Sciences Dr. Janet Campbell Shelly Dean President, Prof. Stephen Vasciannie,(centre) poses with nursing and midwifery students from left, Noel Wright, GillonLindo, Romoy Richards, Javel McGowan, Odean Forbes, Jason Grandison and Eric Armstrong at the 6th annual Striping Ceremony hosted by the College of Health Sciences on February 9, 2017.