9 tertiary education projects to be completed in 2014: Karim

File: Fazal Karim

Tertiary Education Minister Fazal Karim has promised that nine tertiary education projects would be completed in 2014. They form part of the government's Tertiary Education and Skills Training Expansion programme.

The projects are: 

1. UWI Penal/Debe Campus
2. UTT Aviation Campus in Camden Couva
3. NESC Automotive Training Facility in Woodford Lodge
4. UWI Open Campus in Chaguanas
5. MIC Technology Centre in Penal
6. YTEPP Training Facility in Woodford Lodge
7. COSTAATT Main Campus in Charlieville
8. UTT Campus in Petrotrin compound Pointe-a-Pierre
9. A training facility built in conjunction with the Supermarket Association

Karim also said he plans to celebrate Christmas in 2014 at the new Ministry of Tertiary Education and Skills Training Administrative Complex to be located north of the Divali Nagar site. Construction is expection to start on March 1.