The Office of Career and Placement Services at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona and Executive Motors hosted a two-day seminar for 39 guidance counsellors from across Jamaica recently. 
 
The seminar was born out of a need to better educate counsellors and students on the value of career information. According to Placement and Career Services Manager, Mrs. Merrit Henry, a 2008 study suggested that guidance counsellors were not aware of many of the career offerings at UWI, nor the entry requirements for these programmes. 
 

The Jamaican Mathematical Olympiad Organising Committee has announced the local team to the 2012 Central American and Caribbean Regional Mathematical Olympiad, which will take place from June 15 to 23 in San Salvador, El Salvador.
 
They are Zale Young (captain), Campion College; Romain Jones, Campion College; Anphernee Wilson, Herbert Morrison Technical High School; Martin McIntosh, Cornwall College; and Tchakamau Ra, Immaculate Conception High School. 
 

Effective August 2012, the Faculty of Pure & Applied Sciences at the Mona and Cave Hill Campuses of The University of the West Indies, in Jamaica and Barbados respectively,  will be renamed the Faculty of Science and Technology. The decision was taken at the annual business meeting of the Council of The University of the West Indies, held recently at the Mona Campus. The new Faculty will have a heavy focus on technology, particularly information communication technologies (ICT). 
 

Newly appointed professor in the School of Education at The University of the West Indies, (UWI) Mona, Dr. Beverley Bryan will deliver her inaugural professorial lecture with the theme “English is an Arena not a Subject”: Language Teaching and Learning in Post-Independence Jamaica” on Thursday, May 03, 2012 in the Neville Hall Lecture Theatre (N1) at The UWI, Mona Campus, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Interested persons are invited to attend.