Facilities

HERE IS a promise in every name, and for that reason, the name G.C. Foster is indicative of the quality institution it underwrites and the expectations thereof. Gerald Claude Eugene Foster (G.C. Foster) is the name of an outstanding Jamaican of sporting, teaching and coaching background. But there are other aspects of the college. Unique in its position as the only such institution in the English-speaking Caribbean, G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport offers three academic programmes: the three-year diploma in conjunction with the Joint Board of Teacher Education, University of the West Indies; the two-year certificate for coaches and accomplished sportsmen and women; and the Bachelor of Physical Education degree programme in conjunction with the University Council of Jamaica.
The three-year diploma provides teacher training in Physical Education as a specialist area as well as a minor in Human and Social Biology. The Bachelor of Physical Education is a four-year programme. It supplies the need for advanced training in Physical Education locally. In addition to the need for advanced training, there is the prestige attached to being a degree-granting institution.
Prior to the introduction of this programme, people went abroad for this type of training. It is also less expensive to do the programme in the region. Not only Jamaicans study at this institution but students from other English-speaking Caribbean countries. The degree programme also paves the way for the Master's and Doctoral studies, which can be done overseas.
The college is a full-time co-educational residential institution located at Angels, St. Catherine, off the main thoroughfare from Spanish Town to Linstead, and is approximately 20 miles from Kingston.