HEART/NSTA Trust Expects Massive Enrolment after Digital TVET Platform is Launched
By: , May 3, 2024
Photo: Rudranath Fraser
Managing Director of the HEART/NSTA Trust, Dr. Taneisha Ingleton, speaks at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’.The Full Story
The HEART/NSTA Trust is anticipating more than 200,000 enrolments within the first three years, once its digital technical and vocational education and training (TVET) platform is launched.
With a strategic focus on modernising traditional approaches to TVET, the platform will “harness the power of digital technologies to enhance the accessibility, flexibility and overall effectiveness of our TVET offerings,” said the entity’s Managing Director, Dr. Taneisha Ingleton.
Speaking at a recent JIS ‘Think Tank’, she pointed out that it will also enable the transformation of lab-based courses into fully online experiences.
“By seamlessly integrating immersive labs with online lessons, thereby bolstering the Trust’s investment in our Centres of Excellence labs, this initiative will enable the Trust to develop versatile quality TVET products and services for export, which will enable monetisation of its investment,” she explained.
One of the key features of the digital platform will be its ability to accommodate flexible training approaches.
This, according to Dr. Ingleton, is in response to the challenges faced by individuals in conventional nine-to-five jobs.
“We would have had the questions about flexible training approaches. Individuals in their nine-to-five jobs would have been approaching us, as they would want to do something but are finding it difficult to access the Trust, and that is why we are going to be launching the platform,” she explained.
Dr. Ingleton added that the Trust’s main goal, through this initiative, is to empower every Jamaican, regardless of their location or schedule, to access its services.
“The platform will enable every Jamaican, anywhere, at any time of the day, to access our services, and that is why we have been making the investment in our Centres of Excellence. We are building out our labs to ensure that we can support this immersive technology,” she said.
Dr. Ingleton reiterated that through a synchronous and asynchronous approach, “we will be able to transform all our training into online experiences… so that Jamaicans from everywhere can access the services”.