POINT AND COUNTER-POINT~Briceno's Bold Vision: "10,000 NEW STEM JOBS by 2028"
STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) has gained significant notoriety and momentum in recent years (Drozd, 2020). STEM literacy highlights the vital connection between an educated STEM workforce and national prosperity and educational and political leadership. As J. Alexander Bennett would assert, STEM education and job placement goals have been a priority in Belize over the past 70 years from the 1950s when the Belize Technical College was created by the then Colonial Government. However, the STEM gap has continued to widen contributing to increasing the social injus...
Source: breakingbelizenews.com