My Uterus, My Choice
Dannielle Mullings The great abortion debate is swirling around the Jamaican media-scape and for every person like politician Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn who is fighting for the right of female autonomy, there’s…
Challenges of Teaching English
Dr. Rohan Lewis, Associate Professor of Language, Culture and Society in the Faculty of Education and Liberal Studies at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech Jamaica) believes that Jamaica’s language…
UTech Jamaica Collaborates with Blackboard to Improve Online Teaching
George Brown, Chief Information Technology Officer of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech Jamaica) informed a virtual town hall meeting on Tuesday that the university has partnered with Blackboard Inc.…
Students’ Fee Payment Arrangements Eased for Second Semester
Acting President of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech, Jamaica) Professor Colin Gyles informed the student body of UTech Jamaica that there has been a review of fee payment arrangements…
Students Encouraged to be Interdisciplinary and Flexible in the COVID-19 Workplace
Professor Sean Thorpe, the Head of the School of Computing and Information Technology (SCIT) at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech Jamaica) advised students to be interdisciplinary and flexible in…
Jamaicans Diagnosed with Breast Cancer Younger than the Global Average
As Jamaica enters Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, the former Executive Director of the Jamaica Cancer Society, Yulit Gordon urged Jamaicans to take the risk of breast cancer seriously.…
Media Professionals Provide Tips on Entering the Industry
Leading Jamaican media professionals provided students of the Bachelor of Arts in Communication Arts and Technology programme of the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech Jamaica) with insight into entering the…
Suicide Rates among Young Jamaicans alarm UTech Counsellors
According to a 2019 U-Report poll among Jamaicans youth aged 13 – 29, 53 per cent of responders indicated that they had considered suicide. Data also showed that 42 per…
Students Question the Future of Learning in the Age of COVID-19
The experience of creating content for a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) webinar which focused on young people’s responses to the current COVID-19 outbreak resulted in the producers re-thinking their…
Tertiary Students Grapple with the Digital Classroom
Since March 2020, university students across Jamaica have been attempting to adapt to a new way of learning via digital platforms as the country grapples with the effects of the…