HEART Trust/NTA, the National Training Agency of Jamaica, has launched new website

HEART Trust, the National Training Agency's window to the world is a major public relations tool that provides information and access to the functions and activities of the organization and links to training and certification opportunities.

The homepage consists of three groups of links and provides access as follows:

MENU 1: History: Labour Market Research: Annual Reports…: National Training
Register: News Archive/Photo Gallery: Related Links

The links on the left of the page begins with a comprehensive documentation of HEART's history, its mandates, its resources, the structure of the organization, which includes all its departments, and a map of all its locations across the island. There are descriptions of the functions of all major divisions and units and these include contact information for users.

Users can use these links to also access annual reports, strategic plans, memoranda of agreements with key partners and statistics on training in institutions and communities. HEART's News Archive and Photo Gallery presents a record of most of the major activities of the Trust for the past two years. The gallery is dynamic and represents mainly the current activities.

A comprehensive 'links page' provides users with access to related sites that include some of HEART's partners and other entities in the fields of social development, education, tourism, training, government and so on.

MENU 2: Compliance: Career Development Services…: Certification: Learning:
Regional Initiatives:

This second group of links which is at the top of the page provides access to HEART's Revenue collection procedures, brief information on certification possibilities accessed through the National Council on TVET (NCVTVET), curricula and standards used in training and available from the Media Services and information on the activities of the organization throughout the Caribbean region as it assists other Caribbean societies with TVET development.

The CAREER link is a major one that takes users to another site within the main HEART site. This link provides access to career guidance and counseling services and points users to all institutions within HEART and in Jamaica where training can be accessed.

The CAREER site is intended to be very interactive, though some of the interactivity features are still being tested. Users will be able to access assessment instruments that help them to determine the type of career they may be best suited for, guidance on preparing for a career, basic information on programme/course offerings at over 80 institutions across the island and entrepreneurship information that includes guides to setting up a business.

One key feature that is not yet active but due to become so within the next few months is access by employers to a graduate database including resumes, that will facilitate employee search in any sector of the labour market. This feature will also facilitate job searches by trainees in any parish in the island.

The Career link can be accessed independent of the HEART site at www.cardef.org

MENU 3: VTDI: Lifelong Learning: Revised TVET Model: RBH : Jobs at HEART:
NCTVET: Visit a Jamaican Training Institution

The links in the arc on the homepage provide yet another opportunity to access information on key units with their own intranets/webpages and on major conferences, competitions, celebrations and so on conducted by the organization.

These links are very dynamic and change as often as the currency of the activity dictates.

Here access is provided to the work of the NCTVET (National Council on Technical Vocational Education & Training) and will eventually link to their site which is currently being refurbished. Other links include the Runaway Bay HEART Hotel & Training School's site, jobs that are available within the organization and to the Vocational Training Development Institute (VTDI), which is the professional training arm of the organization. The VTDI offers tertiary level training in areas such as entertainment management, information technology and career Guidance and Counselling and has a dynamic outreach programme.

Links to come

A learning management system is being developed that will provide direct access to the individual institutions and departments, but will come on stream in April 2004.

Visit the HEART Trust/NTA at: www.heart-nta.org

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