Introducing BWI
For us, teaching is more than just imparting knowledge. Our primary directive is to cultivate a love of learning in our students.
Our school's mission statement:
BWI mission is to produce a new generation of ethical and
entrepreneurial technocrats, managers and leaders through participatory hands-on approach to human resource development;
- To improve our students' study and social skills while allowing space for independent development
- To encourage students to set reasonable goals and support them in finding solutions to problems that arise along the way
- To enable students to develop their own personal curriculum
- To support students in their transition to adulthood
Contributions to human resource development in Liberia
Since founded more than three quarter of a century ago, BWI has been a reservoir of middle level managers and technicians in agriculture, auto mechanic, building construction trades, business education, electrical, electronic and home economic. It is the only public vocational/technical institution and relies on the Government of Liberia for support. Graduates of BWI have and continue to contribute immensely to both private and public sectors of the Liberian economy. Several thousand BWI graduates are successful entrepreneurs, policy makers, politicians, educators, administrators, bankers, clergymen, managers, engineers, leaders, among others, both at home and abroad. To point to a few, two highly successful enterprenuers are J. Milton who owns and manages the Milton & Richards Architectural & Engineering Firm which designed more than eighty percent of the tangible infrastructures in Monrovia. Alumnus Kenneth Y. Best owns and manages the Daily Observer Newspaper and Publisher Corporation. Politically, Alumnus Bishop Benny D. Wanner became Vice President of Liberia to William R. Tolbert in the early seventies. Presently, eight legislators, two cabinet members and eleven deputy and assistant ministers in the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf led Government are BWI graduates.
Since cessation of hostility in 1997, BWI has graduated over 3000 young men and women over the last 10 years. In the midst of inadequate training inputs and deliberated training facilities, BWI graduates are fetched almost on daily basis to address the skills needs of business entities across the country due to demonstrated skills in various work places while on the internship. This is an indication of desperation for middle level technicians and managers for postwar Liberia’s reconstruction.
Learning in Action
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