Published 12 October 2020
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
CFBC HOLDS LECTURE IN CELEBRATION OF 32 YEARS OF FOUNDING
Basseterre, St. Kitts, October 12, 2020 (SKNIS): October 9th marked the inaugural Clarence Fitzroy Bryant Memorial Lecture, which explored the topic The Right to Education: Positions on Diversity, Law and Ethics in Educational Leadership.
According to Nigencia James, Marketing and Communications Specialist at the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC), the lecture was a part of CFBC’s 32 years of existence. CFBC opened its doors on September 26, 1988.
“The lecture was a part of a number of events that we would have done in celebration of our anniversary,” she said.
Ms. James explained the rationale behind having a lecture in celebration of the college’s anniversary.
“Clarence Fitzroy Bryant was instrumental in bringing universal education to St. Kitts,” she said. “So that’s why we decided to do a lecture especially on the right to education, which he was instrumental in.”
Guest Speaker Dr. Susan Owen, Director of Continuing and Professional Education Centre, UWI Open Campus, explored whether “the education persons have access to is suitably inclusive to be considered as having adequately responded to the nation’s right to education.”
“We really have to move beyond looking at this concept just in terms of if we have enough schools to cater to the number of people that we have, but what really is this type of education that we are providing,” said Dr. Owen. “Is it truly inclusive to all members of our society?”
Established in 1988, the then College of Further Education was mandated to consolidate and augment the opportunities for tertiary level education in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis. The College came into existence with the amalgamation of four previously existing institutions: The School of Nursing inaugurated in 1966; the Teacher’s College established in 1967; the Technical College organized in 1971; and the Sixth Form.
