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Future employees entering the modern workplace must be ready to adapt to changing tides of technology and other requirements that will be expected of them in the ever-changing job market. This was the messaged delivered by outgoing Principal of the University of the West Indies Open Campus, Pro Vice-Chancellor Dr. Luz Longsworth, at the closing […]

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