Education opportunities on show

EDUCATION IS the key, is a statement that has been repeated so many times that there are those who would say that it is taken as a given. However, there are those who do not know exactly where to go to get that key to unlock the latent power of their minds.

At Expo 2005, a range of educational institutions will be putting their keys to a better education and hence a better future, a higher standard of living and increased self-confidence at the disposal of those who come to the Montego Bay Cruise Ship Terminal.

WELL-KNOWN SAYING

And there is that other saying which should be well known by at least all Jamaicans, the creed of the first National Hero, Marcus Garvey, that with self-confidence one has won the race of life even before the start, but without it one is twice defeated.

Among the places where instruction is imparted, wisdom shared and a thirst for knowledge slaked that will be on show between October 7 and 9 are Carib. Education and the Caribbean Institute of Technology (CIT), the latter offering an intensive, hands-on, practical oriented computer programming course.

The HEART Trust /National Training Agency (that's what the 'NTA' actually stands for), the emphasis of which is on conditioning minds to apply the lessons they have learnt from hospitality to entertainment management and which has training institutes in Hanover, Clarendon and St. Andrew, among other parishes, will also be putting its services at the disposal of the public.

The Montego Bay Community College will be right at home, not far from its campus, while the University of the West Indies (UWI) School of Continuing Studies will be showing just what it is offering on its campus beside Cornwall College on Orange Street.