The Joint Board of Teacher Education (JBTE), Mona, has been engaged in quality assurance in teacher education since 1965. Over this period the JBTE has certified well over 50,000 teachers across the Caribbean, but mainly from the Bahamas, Belize and Jamaica. The JBTE has contributed significantly to the development of colleges that train teachers. Within the last decade, several of these colleges have been expanded and diversified, and have had their status as tertiary institutions upgraded.