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Lok Jack Business School conducts corporate training programmes in Guyana

For Release Upon Receipt - March 8, 2010

St. Augustine


In an initiative to offer corporate solutions for organisations, the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business (GSB) recently conducted two corporate training programmes in Georgetown, Guyana, at the Roramia Duke Lodge.

The first programme, “Project Management for Non Project Management Professionals,” was held from February 17th to 19th with participants from varying parts of the Guyanese business sector, such as Guyana Forestry Commission, Grace Kennedy Guyana, Commonwealth Youth Programme, Courts, Demerara Bridge Harbour and Wartsila Guyana operations.

Among the participants of the second programme, “Strategic Human Resources Management,” were companies such as Republic Bank Guyana, TCL Guyana Inc and Neal and Massy Guyana. This workshop, which ran from February 24th to 26th, examined how an organisation could use its people management systems to create organisational value in the short and long term.

The UWI Lok Jack GSB aims to equip its clients with the concepts and tools needed to excel in their organisation, and will continue to offer companies in Guyana opportunities for training through its upcoming programmes, “Delivering Excellent Customer Service,” “Administrative Professionals Workshop,” and “Supervisory Skills Management”.

For more information, please contact Darshanie Mahadeo of the Communications Unit at (868) 662-9894 Ext. 347.

 

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 About The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate school of Business

The Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School of Business (GSB), formerly the UWI Institute of Business (IOB), was established in 1989 as a joint venture between The University of the West Indies and the private sector of Trinidad and Tobago to provide postgraduate education in business and management. In October 2005, the Board of Directors and the University agreed to change the name of the business school in honour of a multi-million dollar endowment made by Arthur Lok Jack, one of the Caribbean’s leading entrepreneurs. Lok Jack GSB has produced more than 1000 graduates to date and has trained and developed more than 19,000 persons in executive and professional programmes. Today, Lok Jack GSB is recognised as the premier institution for the provision of business and management education, training and consultancy services in Trinidad and Tobago and the wider Caribbean region.

About UWI

Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences.

Contact

  • Darshanie Mahadeo

  • Tel.: (868) 662-9894 Ext. 347.
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