FACULTY OF HUMANITIES AND EDUCATION
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(TVET) in the Caribbean under the theme “Building Resilience for Sustainable Development in Disruptive Times”, and the Caribbean Centre for Education Planning in the SOE’s hosting of conferences on “Teacher Migration in Jamaica: Exploring Push and Pull Factors and Probable Policy Options”, and “A Conversation with Jamaica’s Education Transformation Oversight Committee (EOC): Examining Progress and Engaging New Perspectives”; and the JLU’s co-hosting of the 7th International Symposium on the History of English Lexicography and Lexicology, facilitated online through a collaboration between the JLU and the Richard and Jeannette Allsopp Centre for Caribbean Lexicography at Cave Hill. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE AND COLLABORATION The virtual environment continues to provide opportunities for international exchange, such as the virtual intercultural exchange involving students from Tot- tori University of Environmental Sciences (TUES) and Mona students of Japa- nese. A virtual symposium entitled “Social Change and Gender-Based Violence: Representation in Caribbean Literature and Performance Cultures” was held on September 22–23, 2022 as part of a UWI / University of Leicester project while the UWI/University of Leicester (UoL) International Summer School, which has been hosted at Mona in the past, was this time hosted at The University of Leicester, June 5–10, 2023, under the theme ‘Crime, (In)Justice, Human Rights’. Academic exchange is an important part of international collaboration, and the Faculty was happy to see two departments work together to host Professor Erick Barroso, Visiting Professor from the University of Guantanamo in Cuba. This was followed by visits to the Universities of Guantanamo and Havana in Cuba by Dr Villoria Nolla, Head of DMLL, over the summer of 2023.
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SUPPORTING ACTIVITIES TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CREATIVE, CARING, ACCOUNTABLE, MOTIVATED,PROFESSIONAL (CAMP) TEAM The Faculty’s HEARTS series (Humanities and Education Achieving Resilience for Teachers and Students) resumed under Dr Nicole Plummer’s leadership with sessions on “Self-Care 101”, and “Vision Board: Your way to success”. For some time, we have recognized the importance of better engaging and moti- vating administrative, technical, and service staff in Faculty. An incentive & rec- ognition proposal for these vital categories of staff was supported in principle for implementation in the 2023/24 academic year. The initiative is envisaged to increase
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