Saturday, January 24, 2015

Carinlangs Director Dr. Morroy on STVS tonight Sunday January 24th at 7.30 pm



Dr. Morroy, Dean/Director of Varinlangs will be on STVS tonight on the program "In the Spotlight".


Carinlangs and University of Guyana sign MOU

Dr. Morroy will be talking about the achievements of Carinlangs, the upcoming visit of the University of Guyana staff to second mark the Carinlangs action research poster exhibition and future plans for the institution.

Do tell your friends and others interested in the BA Tesol program.

A second batch of the one-year capstone program is scheduled to begin on April 13.

Carinlangs is a teaching institution based in Suriname. It is conducting programs to give students the opportunity to work world wide as teachers of English to speakers of other languages.

Carinlangs offers part time courses for the BA TESOL and MA TESOL at the AlphaMax educational complex -18-24 Stanvastastraat , Parimaribo, Suriname

The Carinlang Mission
Celebrating Suriname's excellence in education, linguistic wealth and cultural diversity Carinlanga aims to be the leading institution in the Caribbean promoting the teaching of English to other speakers.Our graduates will be equipped with the most practical teaching techniques as well as having an extremely wide exposure to cultural experiences.

Friday, January 16, 2015

E-Learning as effective as traditional medical training

LONDON (Reuters) - Millions more students worldwide could train as doctors and nurses using electronic learning, which is just as effective as traditional medical training, a review commissioned by the World Health Organization has found.

Researchers at Imperial College London who conducted the review said on Monday that wider use of e-learning might help make up for a global shortfall of 7.2 million health workers identified in a recent WHO report.

Josip Car, who led the study, said that the use of electronic media and devices in education - already used by many universities and workplaces to allow "distance learning" to support campus- or office-based teaching - could enable greater access to education, especially in poorer countries where the need for health professionals is greatest.

He said the barriers were mostly in access to computers and Internet connections.

Car's team carried out a systematic review of 108 existing studies to assess the effectiveness of e-learning for undergraduate health professional education.

They also conducted separate analyses looking at online learning, requiring an internet connection, and offline learning, delivered using CD-ROMs or USB sticks, for example.

They found that students gain knowledge and skills through online and offline eLearning as well as or better than they do through traditional teaching.

(Reporting by Kate Kelland; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
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Indian Americans dominate US Science Fair

As many as 73 Indian-Americans figure among 300 high school seniors named semifinalists in the , America’s oldest and most prestigious pre-college science and math competition.

Each semifinalist receives a $1,000 award from the Intel Foundation with an additional $1,000 going to his or her school, resulting in $600,000 in total semifinalist awards.
Semifinalists were selected from more than 1,800 entrants hailing from 460 high schools in 41 states, Puerto Rico, and five American and international high schools overseas.

On Jan 21, 40 of the 300 semifinalists will be named Intel Science Talent Search finalists. Finalists will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, DC from March 5-11, where they will compete for more than $1 million in awards.


Thursday, January 15, 2015

AlphaMax mentioned in GAC Newsletter


AlphaMax Academy was mentioned in GAC's newsletter to its 150 Pathway Universities across the world.
The item is reproduced below.
AlphaMax GAC graduate achieves a first for Suriname: A perfect GAC GPA of 4.0
June 28, 2014: Dux of AlphaMax Academy, Reann Kersenhout, has achieved a GAC GPA of 4.0 and the honour of being the first GAC student in Suriname to gain a perfect score. According to Sean Taylor, Principal of AlphaMax Academy, Reann’s achievements are not only academic.
Reann -Graduation 2014
“We are proud of Reann. … On Republic Day in February, she presented a gift from the school to the National Memorial collection and gave an inspiring speech on the occasion of Suriname’s memorial to Nelson Mandela,” he said.
Reann and most of her fellow GAC graduates are planning to take a gap year and start university in September 2015.
Reann playing the steel pan with Pan Master Kenton Wyatt
Note: One member of Reann's class Michael Grauwde is at the University of West Virginia joining his brother Gabriel, another GAC graduate from AlphaMAx Academy. Gabriel is in his third year at University.