ACHIEVEMENTS OF

UWI
 AGENDA

What is UWI?

Achievements of UWI

Challenges that UWI faces

 WHAT
IS
UWI?

The Uni vers i ty of th e W es t I n d i es wa s f oun d ed i n 1948, a nd sta r ted w ith the M o na

campus i n Jama i c a , a t th e s ugges t i on of t h e M oy ne Co m m issio n, a s a so l u tio n to the
l ack of trai ni n g f a c i l i ti es f or s k i l l ed work ers i n t he r eg io n. The thr ee ca m p u ses to d a y
con ti n ue to bri n g s ol uti o n s t o i s s ues f a ci n g t h e Ca r ib b ea n, a l tho u g h ther e a r e
chal l eng es al on g th e wa y. I t i s a n A s s oci a t e I n s t itu tio n o f CAR I CO M .
 ACHIEVEMENTS
• Offering a curriculum that is relevant to the needs of the
region.

• Inclusion of Caribbean gender studies in the Faculty of

Social Sciences as a way of promoting the inclusion of women
in Caribbean development.

• Having distance learning as a solution for many working

Caribbean people who seek training and an education in order
to advance social mobility.

• Producing skilled personnel in business, government and

industry, and people who are committed to the region by
developing science and technology.

• Training professionals (doctors, teachers, lawyers and so on)

of the future to work in both public and private sectors to
meet the needs of the region.
 CHALLENGES
• Strong competition from foreign
universities that offer degrees by
distance teaching.
• Can be costly for faculties of
medicine and law. The university has
been fi nding it diffi cult to lower
the cost of these programmes to
increase the enrolment of future
Caribbean doctors and lawyers
• Contri buti n g s ta tes s o met i mes l a g
beh i nd wi th th ei r requi re d
con tri b uti on s , l ea di n g to a d epl et i on
of f unds to p a y l ec turers a n d procure
i tems/ tool s n ec es s a ry f o r t h e t ea ch i n g
of some prog ra mmes .
• S ti l l no f ul l i n teg ra ti on of
p r o g rammes a c ros s c a mp us es .
S tudents sti l l h a v e to trav el a cros s t h e
r eg i o n f or some p rog ra mmes t h a t a re
of f ered onl y on a s p ec i f i c ca mpus
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