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Heritage Co-operative Credit Union, the major sponsor,

presented FELS with a cheque for $500,000 toward

the venture. In September 2014, the schools, Excelsior

High, Dunoon Technical, Norman Manley High, Oberlin

High and Haile Selassie High, were each given $100,

000 to start a business of their choice. Business

education students were the target group. Ms. Deliah

Bennett, Marketing Manager, Caribbean Airlines

presented airline tickets to be used as part of the prizes

to the winning school.

Miss Diana Allen (right), Senior Marketing Officer, First Heritage Co-operative

Credit Union Ltd. presents a sponsorship cheque for $500,000 to the

University of Technology, Jamaica for the University’s Business Education

and Entrepreneurship pilot project in high schools launched on June 4, 2014

at the UTech, Jamaica Papine campus. Accepting the cheque from left are

Dr Rohan Lewis, Dean, Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies, Dr. Leonie

Clarke, Head, School of Technical and Vocational Education and Mrs. Vivia

Clarke, Programme Director, Business and Computer Studies Programme in

the Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies.

FELS Supports “Mission Catwalk”

The fashion design and management programme

received much exposure from the filming of the popular

Mission Catwalk season in the FELS clothing laboratory

in July. The promotion of the fashion designing

programme (ADPM) received a further boost at the

final show of Mission Catwalk on November 15, 2014.

The Programme also benefitted from a donation of

two air conditioning units which were installed at the

clothing laboratory.

The winner of the competition was awarded a

scholarship to pursue studies in fashion designing at

UTech, Jamaica in the ADPM programme.

Dr. Rohan Lewis, (3rd left) Dean, Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies

and Mrs. Keneea Linton-George, Fashion Designer and Producer, Mission

Catwalk share lens time with budding Jamaican designers Kurt Campbell

(left) and Romeo Williams at a special reception for the viewing of episode

4 of Mission Catwalk hosted by the Faculty at UTech’s Papine campus on

Saturday, October 11, 2014.

Mathematics Education at UTech, Jamaica

In May 2014, a team of senior UTech, Jamaica Faculty

including Professor Colin Gyles, Drs Rohan Lewis

and Leonie Clarke and Mr Afis Ismail met with Dr

Tameka Benjamin, National Mathematics Coordinator

in the Ministry of Education to discuss establishing a

leadership role for UTech, Jamaica in math education.

Dr Benjamin committed to involving UTech, Jamaica

representatives in key areas such as the National

Math Advisory Committee and in discussions on math

education.

FCS Conference 2015

The Family and Consumer Studies Programme in

the School of Technical and Vocational Education

successfully hosted their 12th Annual conference on

February 20, 2015, under the theme “Reinforcing

Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

(STEM) principles through the Home Economics

Curriculum”. Eighteen schools from across the island

participated in this conference.

The keynote speaker Dr Wayne Wesley, Executive

Director for HEART Trust/NTA, highlighted the

approach to STEM integration and its connections to

varying disciplines.

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University of Technology, Jamaica

• ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015