The #Caribbean has the lowest enrolment per capita in higher education in the northern hemisphere, and the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to push the region further down the scale.

The University of the West Indies (UWI) has announced the appointment of Professor Densil A. Williams as Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of its Five Islands Campus, located in Antigua and Barbuda. #AG

Professor Gordon Shirley, Chairman of the Council of the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), has announced a number of key appointments as the university continues its drive to strengthen its governance framework. #JM

VICE-CHANCELLOR of The University of the West Indies Professor Sir Hilary Beckles says, instead of a decline in enrolment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the entity is expecting an increase as individuals retool to cope in the new environment created by the infectious disease.

Jamaican Dr Anita Brown-Johnson expressed no surprise that her son Nicholas Johnson had become Princeton University’s first black valedictorian. #JM

British Virgin Island author and educator Dr. Richard Georges recently won the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature for his poetry book entitled Epiphaneia. #VG

A DEDICATED 24-hour education cable channel and satellite Internet are the key elements in a plan to reach more than 31,000 students islandwide currently cut off from COVID-19-triggered online lessons due to lack of Internet access, says ReadyTV CEO Chris Dehring. #JM

Barbados’ Ministry of Education is expected to roll out its electronic learning suite today: the commencement of the Trinity school term. #BB

PIONEERING e-learning across the Caribbean, One on One Educational Services Limited — a Jamaican-based educational technology company — has found a solution that it says will allow students in remote areas to access educational content without the Internet. #JM

Retired Professor Tara Dasgupta, a distinguished researcher in physical chemistry at The University of the West Indies, Mona, has died of COVID-19 related complications