Building a learning nation

The Cayman Islands are gaining recognition the world over for building world-class learning spaces which reflect both 21st-Century thinking and the islands’ rich and unique culture. Here you can share in the progress of the most innovative, exciting and highly publicised capital programme for education ever undertaken in the Caribbean. These are the reflections in real time of those who are making it happen and those whose lives will be touched; educators, parents, students, government staff, architects, planners, and providers of the services students will ultimately benefit from. The world is watching this one, so leave your comments, link to the site and get in touch if you want to know more. You can see more on the education transformation process at http://buildingexcellencetogether.blogspot.com.


28 May, 2008

Meet Ian Jordan, new ICT Systems Administrator

A key party of the transformation of the Education Service has been to ensure that schools get the services they need to support students in their learning. For ICT support the strategy has been to totally review and increase the numbers and capacity of the technical support team.
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A new member of the team this year is Ian Jordan, an ICT Systems Administrator providing technical support to Cayman's schools. Ian has worked with a number of organisations which include The Ministry of Local Government in Jamaica, Medianet Technologies and most recently Huawei Technologies de Mexico.
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Currently, Ian is supporting the Western Learning Community - George Town Primary School, and John A. Cumber Primary School as well as the Alternative Education Centre, Lighthouse Schools and Prospect Primary School.
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He is recently married to Joy Jordan, a Spanish teacher on the George Hicks Campus. Ian is very knowledgeable in the technical field and particularly strong in troubleshooting network issues. Mr. Steve Durksen, ICT Manager for the Ministry of Education says; "Ian is a great asset to the team and brings networking skills that are invaluable to supporting the many sites in the education ICT network. Ian recently completed Citrix training and will be involved in supporting the Sims MIS program and the educational programs to be delivered through Citrix in 08-09". (SD/GL)

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