NAME OF FEATURE | THE GLEANER | SUNDAY, MAY 11, 2025 16 strategic pillars – Academia and Business. This new direction will propel and position the institution in the higher education landscape to offer more innovative courses and programmes that will generate revenue while improving workforce productivity.” The institution’s goal is, “Transformation of the workforce through skills training and certification.” This includes the Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR) process as an avenue for certification. In keeping with this new direction, IWED has repackaged short micro credentials offerings into Advanced Professional Diploma for academic rigour at the tertiary level. “Micro-credentials are increasingly promoted as a more flexible way of recognising knowledge, skills and competences. They give learners and employees the possibility to collect and combine smaller units of learning [short courses] according to their specific needs and, as such, are often seen as facilitating lifelong and life-wide learning.” To expand education and training activities in Kingston, IWED, which was relaunched in 2022, recently relocated to its new physical space at 17 Eureka Crescent, Kingston 5. This facility also boasts an impressively retooled computer lab. IWED is managed by a Board of Directors with noted Businessman Wayne Chen as Chairman. (L-R) MMS CEO Don Gittens, Interim President of IWED Verica Bennett-Davidson, Chairman of MMS M. Audrey Stewart-Hinchcliffe and Chairman of IWED Wayne Chen, proudly display the RJR Gleaner Award for Education (2023) for IWED’s “pivotal role in workforce development, providing technical and vocational accreditation programmes for national development, facilitating greater inclusion of Jamaicans in the workforce”. IWED CONTINUED FROM 15 To expand education and training activities in Kingston, IWED, which was relaunched in 2022, recently relocated to its new physical space at 17 Eureka Crescent, Kingston 5. This facility also boasts an impressively retooled computer lab. MMS 35TH ANNIVERSARY FEATURE
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