Cayman education : Professor Heppell gets interviewed by CITN from San Diego

Professor Stephen Heppell taking part in an international media interview from San Diego with Donna Bush of Cayman 27 Television Company of the Cayman Islands. This interview should be broadcast next week.

This interview took place during just after the closing session of the Annual cefpi conference (see below). Crucially he speaks about why there has been just so much interest in the Cayman Islands story.

Krista is heard internationally again!!

John Gray student Krista has been heard internationally yet again as she spoke the closing words of Professor Stephen Heppell's closing presentation to hundreds of delegates of the Annual cepfi Conference in San Diego this week.

The video, originally filmed for the World Ministers of Education Conference in London 2008, still really sums up the important message about the real feeling of students and their ambitions for their future!

When she filmed this before Christmas 2007, she could never have predicted how often her own words have been shown all round the world. She really has summed up the feeling of students - they want to be noticed not just in their own country, but in the whole world!! (GL)

The world really is watching... continued

Deputy Chief Officer Vaughan Carter, Chief Officer Mrs Angela Martins, Professor Stephen Heppell, President of cefpi Merle Kirkley, Rick Dewar and Trung Le of oWp/p (Cayman High School architects) and joined by Gareth Long, former Strategic Development Advisor (Education) who attended representing a major UK builder of 'Schools of the Future'.

The blog entry below refers to Professor Heppell promoting the work being done in the Cayman Islands as really visionary and an example to the very best practice leading to education transformation. He did this as part of his keynote speeech at the influential Annual cefpi Conference.

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What could not have been predicted however was the huge interest that has grown during this conference in not just what is happening in Cayman Islands education, but the approach taken to achieve the progress that has been achieved so far.
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Professor Heppell has often told the Ministry that the world is watching the Cayman story.. from the evidence gathered here, from delegates representing, the USA, Canada, Australia and Singapore, that is most certainly true! (GL)
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Cayman education gets even more international coverage!

Professor Stephen Heppell talking about the George Hicks Campus during the Annual cefpi Conference

The new Cayman Islands schools designs have featured very highly this week at a major international conference on future school design in San Diego.

The Council of Education Facilities Planners International Conference (cefpi) is the most important conference of its type in the USA and Canada, this year. This year there were close to a thousand delegates from a number of countries, including: The USA, Canada, Australia, U.K, Jordan, Mexico, Singapore, Dubai and Cayman Islands.

The Cayman schools, and part of the education transformation story was referred to a number of times by Key Note Speaker, and consultant to the Cayman Islands; Professor Stephen Heppell. Unusually for a key note speaker, Prof Heppell is staying all three days and will also close the conference with another presentation.

His comments included the references to the definition of the ‘Educated Caymanian’, the ICT link up of the Little Cayman Education Service to a school in the UK and Cayman Brac, the ICT link up of George Hicks students dropping ‘electronically’ into a conference on schools design to students from three schools in the UK and also a reference to the splitting of the large George Hicks High school to the four small schools on the George Hicks Campus.

Interestingly, a very large number of delegates had already heard of the transformation work being undertaken in Cayman and were very eager to hear more. It is very clear, that the designs in the Cayman Islands really do represent a clear vision of how school designs will reflect the future learning needs of students. Subsequent speakers and planners spent many hours discussing the journey needed to get close to the work that has already been done in the Cayman context.

The feedback about the education transformation of the Cayman Islands was fantastically positive! (GL)