More Bajan Graduates

A local training expert says the number of Barbadians seeking to become professionally certified is growing steadily.
Gail Welch, account executive with Advantage Training Solutions Limited, an internationally recognised body, says this is demonstrated by an increase in the international training facilities operating in Barbados.
Asked what is driving this demand, Mrs. Welch says its competition from CSME and metropolitan countries as well as opportunities brought about by the world wide web.
She says research shows a strong demand for certification in services required by global firms. But Mrs. Welch is expressing concern about the lack of training among senior managers in the workforce.Source: www.cbc.bb

Finally people are seeing the light! The flow of the education in Barbados is Primary School->Secondary School->UWI... It's practically automatic... you hear them all the time... I going to UWI! umm..ok... and do what? Err.. well, I dont know what I'm going to do yet, but I know that I want to go to UWI! I don't care what the job market is like, I don't care what skills are needed, I don't care that it is going to take me 4 years to complete my course in The History of Turtles, I don't care that if I make a conclusion about the air quality at Louis Lynch it will be ignored and someone brought in to over rule my findings (haw haw)... all I know is that I going UWI! sheeeesh... Not knocking graduate degrees but this new world is fast paced man! You come out with a big fat BSc and NO experience, and the stuff you learned during your course, OBSOLETE! We need to be more business minded, knowing how to access the right resources to get a job done. tsk tsk tsk.. studying for studying sake... and then at home, can't find a job, or aint want to work at certain places because you went and learned 200000 things, but the company is only willing to pay for 5 of your skills... idiot.