From consumption to invention

[yahdmon]

It is on the front page. Click the link to g directly to the article.

http://story.jamaicantimes.com/p.x/ct/9/id/8bfe24894a69a728/cid/8fdef8065235cb7f/
It read:
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Government, hoping to create a shift in the psyche of Jamaicans from consumption to one of invention and innovation, has devised a formal programme for implementation in schools aimed at boosting student interest in science and technology (S&T).


And a Harvard professor is similarly to devise specialist training for policymakers to help them craft stronger policies to drive the economic shift.
Initially, the Ministry of Commerce, Science and Technology will invest $15 million in the schools programme that will see, among its components, the twinning of school laboratories to companies. Called Science and Technology in Schools (SATIS), the programme will be limited at its outset to secondary level schools, grades 7 to 13. Financing will come from the ministry's Technology Investment Fund.
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Click di link fi read all a it.

I think it is a good move in the right direction. Wah yu tink?

[wiz]

This is a very good move JA has many brilliant minds that don't get the opportunity to act on their potential hopefully this program will encourage younger people to embrace science & technology.

[yahdmon]

Yes star -- mi see some really brilliant tings weh man a dash weh, or jus a sit dung pon, so we also need to add the resource to the education that them giving.

By that I mean them should show them how to make proper presentations and where to look for finances for their ideas. This is a very good thing -- I just hope it gets a lot of interest.

Dem kids ya now a days just want everything handed to dem pon a silver platter -- dem no waan work hard fi nuttn. Not all a dem though -- so no badda wid me. :-D

It good though -- very insiteful of them to do this.