Research and citation led the way for the institution says Vice-Chancellor
Prof. Sir Hilary Beckles
Laura Dowrich-Phillips – September 23, 2021
The University of the West Indies (UWI) now stands in the top 1.5 per cent of universities in the world, up from three per cent in the prior year. The UWI Vice-Chancellor is Professor Sir Hilary Beckles.
The UWI revealed today that the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking system results for 2022, released in early September, show that The UWI moved up 94 places.
This result places The UWI alongside the State University of New York (SUNY) at Albany. Continue reading
Who will lead the Caribbean? – By David Jessop
The View from Europe: Who will lead the Caribbean?
By David Jessop -Published on May 16, 2015 – Caribbean News Now
David Jessop
Across the Caribbean there is a pervasive view that the Anglophone part of the region needs to find a new pathway to development, and a fresh narrative about its future. The sense is that the regional integration process has failed, and there is an absence of leadership, vision and implementation.
The conference, which could be viewed online, brought together figures from academia, the private sector, civil society, and government to debate the future of the region by encouraging participants to think differently, even disruptively.As Professor Andy Knight, the director of the University of the West Indies’ (UWI) Institute of International Relations at its St Augustine campus so succinctly put it at the recent Forum on the Future of the Caribbean in Trinidad: “There is a hunger across the Caribbean region for change in the way we think of ourselves, the way in which we interact with one another and the way in which we are governed.” Continue reading →
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