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Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) President Dr Robert Robertson.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS While traditional enrollment is down about 22 percent, non-traditional enrollment at the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) is up, according to its president, Dr Robert Robertson.
Robertson, who was speaking at the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the Ministry of Education and US-based networking solutions giant Cisco, noted that job security amid the pandemic has driven many to seek technical skills training.
“Our traditional student enrollment is down about 22 percent at BTVI, but our non-traditional enrollment for short courses is up. We see a lot of people concerned about employment and they are not really looking for a full academic programme like they were pre-pandemic,” he said.
This year gives Christians an important opportunity to consider and grapple with what it means to be pro-life to be a full advocate for the sanctity and dignity of human persons in a politically fraught, death-filled time.
While fixation on social media and national politics has skewed our focus to what happens in Washington, DC, our pro-life convictions direct us to the local work that must be done and expand our moral imagination beyond partisan boxes.
In his book
Resisting Throwaway Culture, professor and author Charles C. Camosy writes that our culture and economy tend to reduce “everything including people into mere things whose worth consists only in being bought, sold, or used.” In a throwaway culture, exploitation and oppression often become subconscious and systemic. Abortion is an obvious example of this, and Camosy writes that during the pandemic, we have seen how our elderly have been treated in a similar fashion.
A CHARITY single written, recorded and performed as a tribute for NHS workers has picked up an award at this year s Scots Trad Music Awards. The annual event was broadcast last night as artists from Scotland s traditional music scene were recognised for brilliant achievements and stand-out releases. And among the worthy winners from last night s broadcast included the NHS charity single Everyday Heroes , which won Original Work of the Year. Skerryvore member Martin Gillespie said he wrote the track to pay tribute to the hundreds of thousands of NHS staff, volunteers, and key workers who are risking so much to fight Covid-19 and keep us all safe.