doors for individuals and institutions involved in education and training at all levels; However, use of ICT in education is not a panacea. Educational software can be technically smart, but socially impoverished. The changes in teaching method which the new technology typically requires at primary and secondary levels, such as allowing people to progress at their own pace, need to be also socially enhancing. Grenada and the Region need to have a reflective and evaluative rather than purely technocratic approach to managing change in curricula and teaching methods. We should aim at a teaching and learning framework and a network that add local and regional socio-cultural values to support and strengthen curriculum restructuring. At tertiary level the main curricula needs are to ensure that training in ICT reflects changing national standards so as to attract local and international entrepreneurship and capital; and to ensure that it is buttressed by the development of general business skills. Developing a consciousness of world business standards and approaches to maximize markets revenues is a key process in reinvigorating the traditional market sectors. T A Marryshow College, already developing strategic partnerships with UWI and with St George’s University, is well placed to help consolidate local needs, and select, adapt and deliver from international online education and training options in line with national requirements. Smart Partnerships in delivery should seek to also develop partnerships between public and private sector to define and share the cost of effecting specific training requirements geared to investment in jobs and infrastructure. This would include product certification and the kind of 26 A STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN FOR GRENADA Anurag Sinha

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