The research shows that the student who enjoys parental support does experience more substantial educational outcomes than does that student who doesn’t have that kind support system. It can be extrapolated that the greater the academic qualification of parents the greater the quality of help that will be available to their children.
Photographic Highlights of NCU's Montego Bay Literacy Programme
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NCU Montego Bay Campus Lead Charge in Literacy Programme for Parents
The research shows that the student who enjoys parental support does experience more substantial educational outcomes than does that student who doesn’t have that kind support system. It can be extrapolated that the greater the academic qualification of parents the greater the quality of help that will be available to their children.
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NCU Team to Leave for France Soon
Three students from Northern Caribbean University (NCU) Department of Communication Studies (DCS) will be spending a year in France as English Language Assistants in secondary schools. The team of all women is slated to spend at least seven months in the European territory comprises of one current student and two proud alumni of this noble institution. The trip which will leave in late September will see the NCU representatives plying their trade the start of October.
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Team Herboo Off to Represent NCU and Jamaica in Utah, USA
Herboo Enterprise from the Northern Caribbean University walked away with 2 Million Dollars after winning the National Business Model Competition. They have earned the right to represent Jamaica at the International staging in Utah, USA from May 1 to 3, 2014.
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Braille Reader’s Club Learn to Read Braille Using Adventist Fundamental Beliefs Book
Every week, a secular organization for the blind, located in West Palm Beach, Florida, hosts an educational ministry—the West Palm Beach Braille Readers’ Club—where visually challenged adults learn to read braille using the 28 fundamental beliefs of Adventism as their study materials.
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Go Team Herboo
Following an exciting trail of lucrative wins, yielding returns of over $JA2 million of prize money, National Business Model Competition winners, Herboo Enterprise, carrying the pride and blessing of Brand Jamaica, is now poised to join the ranks of distinguished Jamaican world champions.
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Adventist HealthCare Names New President and CEO
Adventist HealthCare (AHC) recently announced that Terry Forde has been named president and CEO of the Gaithersburg, Maryland, organization.
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Oakwood Student Admitted to NASA's MUREP Program
Kristen Donna Patrice McLean, sophomore chemical and engineering major at Oakwood, has been admitted into NASA's Minority University Research and Education (MUREP).
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NCU vies for Int'l Business Model Competition trophy
A team of students from Northern Caribbean (NCU) that developed an all-natural herbal shampoo is expected to return from Utah in the United States today where the International Business Model Competition with a purse of US$25,000 was staged from May 1 to 3.
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NCU is Eduvision 2014 Champion
From left, Northern Caribbean University's Peter Lyn, Christopher Smikle, Kevin Kennedy and Thomas Whittaker show off their trophy at the EduVision 2014 Conference and Exposition. Northern Caribbean University won the software/app development competition with their entry Proximity -- the ultimate school locator under the mentorship of Damion Mitchell, lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences at NCU.
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New Jersey Church Hosts Homeless Families
Each year New Jersey Conference's Wayne church members host an Easter program, but not this year. This year members threw open the church doors and welcomed four adults and nine children without a home to call their own.
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ASI Ministry Heralds Creation
For more than 20 years, Creation Illustrated magazine has shared God’s transformational power through life-changing, character-building parables. This publication has gone to Adventist schools and teachers in North America, as well as to prisoners, homeschoolers, hospital chaplains, ASI member organizations and their employees, and subscribers in all 50 states and 30 foreign countries—including those of other faiths that make up about 55 percent of the magazine’s readership.
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Professionalism in The Workplace
All professions have a workplace, one would think it safe to assume therefore that professionalism is part and parcel. Woe to the assumer, and double woe to anyone believing that the place gives birth to the ‘ism. However, whenever the work is to be done, the greater the professionalism the higher the success.
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Break The Fast-Food Cycle
How many times have you blamed the fast-food restaurants for our current obesity problems in Jamaica? Have you ever stopped to think that choices are always available wherever we eat.
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Photographic Highlights of NCU's Brown Bag Lecture 2014
The Department of Graduate Psychology hosted a Brown Bag lecture series at the Northern Caribbean University’s (NCU) Field View Conference room on Wednesday May 7, 2014. Mrs Marcia Mullings, Regional Health Officer and Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner with the Southern Regional Authority shared in the presentation as Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner collaboration with psychologists in the 21st century.
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High Five Teachers
The power of a teacher goes beyond the call of an individual being trained in the area of influencing young minds to be independent thinkers or to be paid to stand before a group of students for a protracted period of time. Research has shown varying definitions of who a teacher is and the attributes of a good teacher. Oftentimes parents have to be patient with their children for in conversation on any given topic their children say, “but teacher said this is the way” or “but that is not how teacher said it is to be done”. Indeed, teachers are great influencers.
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"Tell me a Lie:" The Truth About Lies
"Do not trust in these lying words, saying, ‘The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these.’" Jer. 7: 4
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The Diversity of the NCU Brand
The concept of diversity encompasses acceptance and respect. It means understanding that each individual is unique, and recognizing individual differences is key to development in all spheres of life. These differences may include race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, age, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs, or ideologies. It is important to explore these differences with an open mind and with compassion. We must seek to understand and respect each other in spite of our differences.
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What Makes NCU the University of Choice?
What makes Northern Caribbean University (NCU) students and alumni stand out above their peers in their respective fields and in the society at large? Is it because they are more prepared ethically, they are morally sound, or express a willingness to learn, while remaining respectful to all throughout work and or while at play? Or could it be the value added component that each student receives when they get enrolled at this Seventh-day Adventist owned and operated tertiary institution?
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Begin With the End in Mind
"There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Prov. 16: 25
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