Shortwood Teachers' College

Shortwood Teachers' College is a public teacher-training institution at 77 Shortwood Road, Kingston 8, with an additional campus in May Pen.

Founded on September 28, 1885 by the Rt. Rev.

Enos Nuttall, then Archbishop of the West Indies, it became co-educational in 2001 and is one of Jamaica's oldest teacher-training colleges. The college's programmes are accredited by Jamaica's Tertiary Education Commission and the University Council of Jamaica, with Bachelor of Education degrees granted through The University of the West Indies and UCJ-approved degrees including the Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood) and Bachelor of Education (Secondary) with specialisations in Human Ecology, English, Mathematics, Religious Education, Geography/History and Modern Languages.

Shortwood also previously hosted a Master's in Early Childhood Education delivered in Jamaica by the University of South Florida (USA) under UCJ recognition.

The college is organised into nine faculties spanning Aesthetics, Early Childhood Education, Professional Studies, Human Ecology, Language Arts, Mathematics, Modern Languages, Science and Environmental Studies, and Geography/History/Social Studies/Primary Education. Training combines face-to-face instruction with supervised teaching practice placements in Jamaican schools, and the college offers financial aid, scholarships and multiple payment options to support its trainee-teacher population under Ministry of Education requirements.