Director's Message

Director’s Message

UTechOpen is the continuing education school at the University of Technology, Jamaica. We offer Associate Degrees, Pre-University, Professional Programmes, and Short Courses, which are delivered via different modalities.

Providing access to traditional as well as non-traditional students to university education is one of the more flexible approaches to people development in any community. Meeting people where they are and providing them with the educational ladder to grow personally and professionally and in doing so, help the communities and industries in which they live and work to develop socially and economically is an important mandate of a national university. UTechOpen is pleased to be associated with this thrust of the University of Technology, Jamaica.

We believe in creating opportunities for people to access higher education and further learning whether this is for academic, professional, personal or recreational reasons. We aim to build bridges to facilitate education and training for Jamaican, Caribbean and international students and clients, as well as to add value to new and existing educational programmes in respect of quality assurance, research and professional validation.

The small team of professionals currently engaged in helping to establish and maintain the agenda of UTechOpen include fulltime and experienced part-time instructors and resource persons drawn from the communities we serve. We are committed to respond to requests and the needs of the community in ways that are convenient for them in terms of length of programmes, delivery methodology, and delivery site and assessment protocols.

Welcome to UTechOpen. Let us know your training and educational needs and we will help you confidently achieve your goals.

Sophia McIntosh, JP, BSc UWI, Dip. Ed. VTDI, MBA UWI  
Head, UTech Academy


Overview 

1. To provide innovative and expanded access to learning to local, regional and global students

2. Respond to the training and developmental needs of businesses and organizations

3. Respond to the needs of people within select communities who might not have had access to university programmes

4. Prepare eligible individuals to matriculate into the UTech, Ja. Faculties through the provision of pre-university courses

5. Facilitate credit banking within the University

6. Offer a package of courses at the CXC /Cape Levels to facilitate entry into UTech, Ja


PROGRAMMES

UTech Academy

· Pre- university programmes: Accounts, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Principles of Economics Developmental English, Foundation of Academic Literacies

· Sixth Form form STEM Pathway Programme

· UTech, Ja. Entry Pathways (alternate degree entry pathways)

 

UTech Executive Education

· Corporate Training

· Management and leadership short courses/certificates

· Marketing and Sales

· Strategy

· Business Analytics

 

Professional Studies

· STEM short courses

· Professional Short Courses

· Badges and Certification (micro-credentials)

· Career Development

· Entrepreneurship and Innovation

 

Tech Skills Programme:

· Cybersecurity

· Data Science

· Artificial Intelligence

· Internet of Things (IoT)

· Robotics

· Computer Programming

· Machine Learning

· Drone Technology

· Introduction to Graphic Design