Podcast appearances and mentions of benjamin niles

Real Estate development company Apex Construction Inc. started operations in 1988 in the midst of a middle-class home building explosion in Barbados. Today 30 years on the company is still intensely focused on the market it wanted to serve back then -. the typical middle-class Barbadian family with dreams of owning an affordable and finished home. In this week’s episode of ‘Backstage with Bajan Brands’, Managing Director of Apex, Benjamin Niles, talks to me about how they intend to keep driving the cost of homes down to keep serving that market. Talk about holding a position. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/dianne-squires/message

This episode's discussion features Benjamin Niles, Chairman of the Barbados Vocational Training Board (BVBT), and centres on education. Our host Collis Williams purports that we the people of the Caribbean are not harnessing the power of logistics as we should; a problem that is clearly rooted in the way in which we were educated. Niles argues that we were taught to retain and regurgitate instead of the power of creative thought. The two agree that in the Caribbean, education as we know it must desperately be reinterpreted, and offer a few suggestions on how we can go about this behemoth of a task.Visit our website to join the discussion on this episode.

This episode features Benjamin Niles of Apex Construction Inc. We discuss the critical role that logistics plays in the cross-pollination of ideas and innovations. We also examine how protectionism hampers the development of our human resource and negatively impacts our net productivity in the Caribbean. Visit https://www.rdleagle.com/podcast/ to join the discussion.

In today’s classrooms academics and teachers are increasingly expected to incorporate new communication technologies into their curriculum. However, by adopting these new mediums are we reducing the quality of students’ educational experience or is this just the way of the classrooms of tomorrow? In the final ‘blow up the lecture’ event for the year, our panel of experts examine the future of education in an online world addressing questions such as: What digital resources can we harness to enhance our massive open online courses (MOOCs)? Are there any resources that need rapid development? What is our single most relevant hurdle to fully harnessing digital education What are the key target populations for ANU in online learning? What do you think are the measures of success for MOOCs? Armando Fox is a professor in Berkeley's Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department and the Faculty Advisor to the UC Berkeley MOOCLab. With his colleague David Patterson, he co-designed and co-taught Berkeley's first Massive Open Online Course on "Engineering Software as a Service", offered through edX, through which over 10,000 students in over 120 countries have earned certificates of completion. Gabriele Bammer is a professor at the ANU National Centre for Epidemiology & Population Health and ANU Research School of Population Health. She is developing the new discipline of Integration and Implementation Sciences (I2S) and is working with Michael Smithson from the Research School of Psychology on an ANU edX MOOC on “Ignorance!” which will go live in 2015. Benjamin Niles is the President of the ANU Postgraduate and Research Students' Association (PARSA). Ben studied at Melbourne High School and went on to complete a Bachelor of Commerce at Monash University. In 2013 he commenced the Juris Doctor with the College of Law. Prior to commencement at the ANU he has worked as an auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers and as a Coordinator for the not-for-profit tutoring organisation Embrace Education. Sam Parkinson is a year 8 student from Telopea Park School. The conversation was facilitated by Philip Clark ABC Canberra Breakfast Presenter.