EDITOR’S NOTE: Near mid-March, #EduCaribbean featured the University of the West Indies in our edition 2021-03-18. This newsletter does so again. Three locations are covered, namely: Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Two of our five articles are about the university as a regional entity. Trinidad and Tobago share an article with Jamaica. Jamaica has another, and Saint Vincent the other.
Our headline, taken from the Stabroek News, reads: “Beckles’ Contract Renewed As UWI VC Despite Jamaica, T&T Opposition”. Professor Sir Hilary Beckles’ contract as vice-chancellor of UWI was renewed by the University Council for another five year. There was no vote, but the governments of Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago agreed to accept the council’s decision.
In his “State of our University Address”, Professor Beckles stated that, “The university has been transformed and our reputation regionally and globally has never been higher”. UWI has also been awarded two gold awards and one merit award for creativity, marketing execution and message impact in its public campaigns on climate action and the COVID-19 response.
The Seismic Research Centre received a grant from the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility in support of its monitoring of ongoing eruptions of the La Soufrière volcano in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Finally, the Mona School of Business and Management in Jamaica was highly ranked for its MBA programmes in the latest Eduniversal listing.