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Seilest Bradshaw and Ian Drakes posing with the MOU

SJPI, GIS Sign MOU

The Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology (SJPI) and The Government Industrial School (GIS) announce collaboration to provide skills training to wards of the GIS On Wednesday 8th, March 2023, the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology (SJPI) and the Government Industrial School (GIS) have...
Shawn Seales

Two SJPI Students Receive Minister’s Maritime Awards

Two students enrolled in the discipline of Maritime Studies at the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology (SJPI) have been presented with the Minister’s Award of Maritime Excellence for 2022. Minister of Tourism and International Transport, lan Gooding-Edghill, congratulated and presented 20-year old Abigail Rollock...
Abigail Mohamed

SJPI holds first in-person graduation since onset of COVID

Under the theme Rising Together – Conquering the World, the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology (SJPI), for the first time since the onset of COVID, was able to host an in-person graduation ceremony. The event, which took place at the Garfield Sobers Sports Complex,...
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SJPI receives donation from US Embassy

Over US$1,000 in educational resources were donated yesterday to the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology (SJPI) by the United States Embassy, to be used by students in its newly-renovated media resource centre. Principal of the SJPI, Ian Drakes, in accepting the materials, thanked the...
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Jada Paves The Way

Principal of the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology Ian Drakes is singing the praises of construction group JADA Inc over its recent reconstruction of a walkway for students on the campus. Drakes said this morning that the company’s contribution speaks volumes to the importance...
SJPI Media Resource Centre Opening Night

SJPI Supports Government’s Plan to Digitise the Public Service

SJPI supports government’s plan to digitise the public service. The recently modernised and digitised library at the Samuel Jackman Institute of Technology (SJPI) is being regarded by the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training as fully supporting government’s national plan of action to deconstruct...
SPJI MRC Launch

SJPI Launch State-Of-The-Art Media Resource Centre

These are exciting times! Last night the Samuel Jackman Institute of Technology launched its state-of-the-art Media Resource Centre! Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Technological and Vocational Training, Betty Alleyne-Headley cut the ribbon along with Principal of the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology,...
SJPI MRC Launch

Deputy Principal Jones-Drayton to retire

Deputy Principal JONES-DRAYTON to retire. The Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology (SJPI) will be looking for a new Deputy Principal. The institute announced late Friday night that Ms. Audrey Jones-Drayton, Deputy Principal (Ag.), who has held the position since December 2017, will be retiring...

BIMAP, The SJPI agree to share skills, boost campus green energy

The nation’s leading business school, Barbados Institute of Management and Productivity (BIMAP), has agreed to tap into the expertise of the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology (SJPI) to further develop its green energy profile. In return, BIMAP has agreed to help SJPI’s students and...

80 young people part of Next Step initiative

Eighty unemployed young persons have been given the opportunity to upskill themselves at the Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology (SJPI), under the Next Step Training Initiative of the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Community Empowerment. They will receive training across five disciplines: Photovoltaic Installation;...

Skilled Persons Vital To Renewable Energy Sector

Minister of Energy, Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Kerrie Symmonds, has reiterated the need for a skilled labour force to be trained to install, maintain and service renewable energy technologies, as the island continues apace to meet the 2030 renewable energy target. He renewed the call...

The SJPI Launches New Business Management Diploma

The Samuel Jackman Prescod Institute of Technology (SJPI) has partnered with international non-profit skills development organisation, ABE UK, to offer a new qualification, the Level 4 Foundation Diploma in Business Management. According to a media release from the SJPI, the diploma will provide students with valuable business...
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