The St. Patrick’s Campus was incorporated into the
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The St. Patrick’s Campus is designed to deliver competency based training in a number of technical skills that are critical to the sustainable development of
These skills include: Welding; Auto Mechanics; Furniture making; Masonry; Building Construction; Architectural Drawing; Hospitality Arts; Secretarial Science; Electrical Installation; Electronics.
The teaching method employed at the St. Patrick’s Campus is modeled after the German module of delivering competency based training; the triangular method.
There are theoretical sessions, workshops and on the job training.
The class rooms of the St. Patrick’s campus are designed specially for this sort of training
in that the class rooms are built with the workshops integrated into it.
It was specifically designed for skills training.
Since the incorporation of the campus a series of consultations have been held with the staff of the campus to ensure that the transition is a seamless one and that all are on board with the relevant changes that are to take place, as the College continues to strive for what is best practice in the delivery of programmes and in keeping with its mission.
The St. Patrick’s campus is being looked at for the inclusion of classes that are more of an academic nature e.g. CXC courses, Science subjects etc. but that is all going to take some time since there must be infrastructural development of the campus to accommodate these changes.