The LIME Foundation on Tuesday launched a weeklong Web-Design Training programme for teachers from primary schools in the Corporate Area and instructors from the MultiCare Foundation.

The programme will also include instruction in the use of Excel and Word applications. This is the first of what is intended to be an annual event which will take place during the Easter holiday school break.

Some 20 participants, with varying levels of computer competence, form the first cohort and they come from schools such as George Headley, Mico Practising, Seaview Gardens, Chetolah Park, Holy Family, St Aloysiusy Whitfield Town and New Providence and the MultiCare Foundation.

In a brief welcome at the beginning of the opening session, LIME Foundation Chairman Errol Miller encouraged the participants to take full advantage of the opportunity being offered, especially bearing in mind how computer savvy some of their students already were. He also urged them not to keep their newly acquired skills to themselves, but to endeavour to incorporate them into their school curriculum.

The programme ends today with a competition for the best website.