Pearson College in Vancouver Canada Offers a Scholarship to A Suriname student

While there are scholarship programs available for Surinamese students to study off-island after graduating from high school, few have the opportunity to attend a high school abroad. Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific, located on Vancouver Island ,in Canada, is now offering such a scholarship.

 The College is pleased to announce that the 2012-13 academic year will see the first-ever selection for a scholarship to Pearson College in Suriname. Lester B. Pearson College is a member of the United World Colleges or UWCs. UWCs are an association of twelve international boarding campuses situated all over the world.

Ms. Suzanne Tremblay, Manager Special Projects will visit Suriname on Mar 29 and Mar 30 to meet student and interview students who are interested in the scholarship to Pearson.

After graduation, UWC alumni have doors open to the world’s best universities, with high numbers accepted every year to Ivy League schools, including Harvard, Princeton and Dartmouth, as well as to Oxford and Cambridge in Britain.

 Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific is committed to providing educational opportunities to students from the Americas, the College decided to extend an offer of a full scholarship for two years, worth approximately $80 000, to a high school sophomore or junior from Guyana. The scholarship covers tuition, accommodation, food, books for the academic years 2012-13 and 2013-14. A committee of leading educators and alumni from the College will select the student.

Five associates with the AlphaMax Academy attended the first Virtual Educa Caribbean conference,  with  a focus on the non  Spanish-speaking Caribbean that was held in Paramaribo at the TBL February 29 to March 2nd, 2012. The event took place concurrently with the VII Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Education organized by the Organization of the American States.
The objectives of the Virtual Educa Caribbean conference were to:

1. To include non Spanish-speaking Caribbean region in the activities of Virtual Educa.
2. Offer participants the opportunity to see concrete evidence of how ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) and innovation in education are applied, including examples and best practices through workshops, exhibits and conferences.
3. Focus  not only on advanced technology but also show participants the low-tech means that are available.

One outstanding seminar was presented by Dr. Kenneth Sylvester, of the Caribbean Knowledge and Learning Network (CKLN).  The first public announcement  of the Caribbean’s dedicated research and education high-speed fiber optic network, C@ribNET was completed.  The Project Purpose is to improve the relevance of tertiary education and training institutions in the Caribbean, by increasing the number of relevant accredited tertiary education courses and programs supported and offered to a significantly increased numbers of Caribbean students.
Other associates of AMA, please fell free to write about all the outstanding seminars!