{"id":479,"date":"2009-04-06T05:41:24","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T05:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/?p=479"},"modified":"2022-12-12T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:52:42","slug":"sector-partnership-human-capital-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/2009\/04\/06\/sector-partnership-human-capital-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Sector Partnership for Human Capital Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The contribution being made will be contained by the time limit and, focus on tertiary education, but with emphasis on the Caribbean experience.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-480 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pro_ken.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pro_ken.jpg 178w, https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pro_ken-102x146.jpg 102w, https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pro_ken-35x50.jpg 35w, https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/pro_ken-52x75.jpg 52w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/>Tertiary Education institutions have been an integral part of human society for almost as many years as religious institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The pursuit of scholarships, teaching, learning and research \u2013 the pillars of a University \u2013 has always been a significant activity of all civilizations. In many cases, such activities have had as their objective \u2013 the preparation of individuals for specific professions \u2013 in medieval time \u2013 clergy and law and in the early 19th Century \u2013 medicine, science and the arts joined the studies of law and religion.<\/p>\n<p>With the growth of the industrial culture in the developed world \u2013 several other disciplines sought and obtained \u2018academic status\u2019 and the tendency to specialization took growth.<\/p>\n<p>Specialties in Engineering \u2013 no longer only civil as opposed to military \u2013 the sciences, economics, social sciences, management etc. have today all achieved equal status with the traditional professional subjects and Universities and other tertiary education institutions have become closely related to economic development. As a recent quotation puts it:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA highly educated citizenry trained to support the economic activity of a nation is essential, and numerous studies confirm the direct correlation between a highly educated workforce, economic competitiveness, and the wealth of a nation. The dynamic and volatile nature of the global economy requires a human resource pool with entrepreneurial skills that anticipate economic and technological changes and respond expeditiously.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That quotation provides the starting point to treat with the question of:<\/p>\n<div><strong>Investing in People: Public\/Private Sector partnership for Human Capital Development<\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/481-Prof_Julien_Investing_in_People.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Click here to download presentation PDF]<\/a><\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contribution being made will be contained by the time limit and, focus on tertiary education, but with emphasis on the Caribbean experience.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-releases","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3455,"href":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/3455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eteck.co.tt\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}