Basseterre, Saint Kitts, July 2, 2025 (PMO) —Two younger residents of St. Kitts and Nevis, Mr. Dillon Simmonds and Mr. Rodison Jeffers, are set to depart this month, July 2025, for Germany the place they may embark on an intensive three-year twin vocational coaching programme in electronics engineering, an unprecedented alternative born out of a imaginative and prescient championed by Prime Minister Hon. Dr. Terrance Drew lengthy earlier than he took public workplace.
Each trainees, age 20, have signed employment contracts with German corporations in Sylt and Niebüll and can pursue the celebrated ‘Bachelor Skilled’ qualification as electronics technicians for power and constructing know-how. Below Germany’s famend twin training system, they may mix paid on-the-job coaching with superior technical coursework on the Vocational Faculty of the District of Nordfriesland.
Chatting with the younger males, Prime Minister Dr. Drew recounted the origins of the initiative. “I went to Germany, in 2020, simply earlier than COVID, and I did a tour. I used to be not in authorities, however I mentioned, if I had been to get in authorities, I would love our individuals to come back to Germany as a result of Germany has the most effective scientific methodology…I nonetheless consider they’ve the most effective methodology on the planet.”
He emphasised how this expertise will put together them for management within the technical fields. “In Germany, once you end faculty, you might be proficient. They’ve a well-oiled youth workforce due to the system that’s properly, properly, properly oiled.”
Mr. Simmonds and Mr. Jeffers had been chosen after a rigorous course of coordinated by the Clarence Fitzroy Bryant Faculty (CFBC) and the Superior Vocational Schooling Centre (AVEC) beneath a Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2024 with the Chamber of Crafts Flensburg, Germany. Over the previous 12 months, they efficiently accomplished German language coaching, incomes a B1 certificates of proficiency, and took part in preparatory workshops with German consultants who travelled to St. Kitts and Nevis to assist equip them for the transition.
Prime Minister Drew inspired them to embrace the chance absolutely and to function ambassadors for his or her friends.
The profitable placement of each Simmonds and Jeffers marks the primary cohort in what is meant to be a sustainable, long-term partnership, designed not solely to construct capability in precedence technical areas however to broaden cultural change and profession pathways for Kittitian and Nevisian youth.
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