Vocational Skills Training
The Confucius Institute at T.A. Marryshow Community College actively promotes the development of "Chinese + Vocational Skills" education to combine technical training with Chinese language education. With auto maintenance and repair technology as the breakthrough point, the Insititute helps T.A. Maryshow Community College to cultivate technical talents urgently needed by the local society, helps students seek better employment, and thus improves the livelihood of the local people. In 2017, the Institute contacted Ningbo Polytechnic and held a one-month "Overseas Training Class of Auto Maintenance Technology." In 2022, supported by Ningbo University of Technology and its affiliated Ningbo Traffic School (Yinzhou Vocational High School), the Institute held a one-year "Online Training Course for Auto Maintenance Faculty, China·Zhejiang (Ningbo) – Grenada ", which further promotes its vocational and technical education as a distinct feature. In July 2023 and July 2024, the first and second sessions of the "China·Zhejiang (Ningbo) – Grenada Online Training Program for Automotive Instructors" were held in Ningbo, China. The Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute led automotive teachers and students from T.A. Marryshow Community College in Grenada to Ningbo, where they received comprehensive hands-on training in automotive repair at Yinzhou Vocational High School, engaged in in-depth exchanges with relevant schools and departments at Ningbo University of Technology, and conducted field visits and study tours to sites such as the Geely Auto Hangzhou Bay Base.