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UWI campus planned for Grenada

Posted by CaribShout on September 11, 2009 at 7:30am

Grenada government is aiming to have a University of the West Indies (UWI) campus on the island within another three years. That was one of the plans outlined for education by Prime Minister Tillman Thomas in an address to the nation last night. He said the government needed to provide more tertiary level education for citizens. "We are moving expeditiously with plans to develop a UWI Open Campus Facility here in Grenada that would accommodate not only degree programmes but would offer research facilities for Masters and Doctoral Dissertations," Prime Minister Thomas said. "We are assured that this could happen within a three-year time frame." Thomas said his administration also intended to continue the expansion plans for the T.A Marryshow Community College to support it as the premier tertiary education institution for Grenada. Additionally, he said, the government has given full support to St Georges University (SGU). "They have assisted us in developing specialist degrees such as counseling, and supported fully other development degree areas relevant to the region," the Prime Minister said, adding that teachers would also be given opportunities to further their education. "We have asked them (SGU) to develop degree options specifically for teachers that can be done during the summer and other recesses and at reasonable cost for our teachers." Making reference to the enunciation by the 2008World Conference on Inclusive Education in Geneva that "an education system cannot rise above the level of its teachers", the Grenadian leader insisted that the island's teachers must become qualified to the accepted standards that now prevail in most Caribbean countries.
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