Special Reports

This article is a reproduction of In Focus Policy Briefing 9.1 from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), UK.  It was written by Dr Andy Sumner, a Research Fellow from the Vulnerability and Poverty Reduction Team at IDS. 

The National Training Agency (NTA) is the organisation mandated with the responsibility to coordinate and facilitate the development of a skilled, competent and innovative workforce for Trinidad and Tobago.

The Hilton Trinidad & Conference Centre is indicative of our rich cultural heritage, and the vibrancy and originality of the local hospitality industry. The hotel’s  prosperous history has been largely influenced by the nation’s thriving energy sector-based economy.

Trinidad and Tobago is the leading Caribbean producer of oil and gas and maintains the most favorable economic climate in the Caribbean region. Between 2002 and 2006, the country experienced phenomenal economic growth.

The challenge to build a technological base to better support small payment and financing services for clients across the Caribbean and the globe has been accepted by Antigua’s Global Bank of Commerce (GBC).

By providing education to a wider range of individuals, countries can grow their human capital and ensure both employability and ongoing learning through continuous professional development.

The recent downturn in the global economy has led workers who have been made redundant and job-seekers facing a wave of unemployment, to scramble to education to retrain and improve their marketability.

We should not think of science classes as simply delivering the required scientific and technical quota of students to society but understand that critical thinking and investigation lies behind many other careers such as law and management.

The context within which the delivery of public services exists has become increasingly complex and global, and many of the assumptions underpinning traditional approaches to the provision of public services no longer work. 

With only five years remaining to achieve the international Education for All goals, persistent inequities between and within countries exist, and the Commonwealth is not immune.