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The Open Campus was established to improve services to the non-campus territories. [2] [3] It brought together several existing UWI units, namely the University of the West Indies Distance Education Centre (UWIDEC), the School of Continuing Studies (originally the Extra Mural Department), the Tertiary Level Institutions Unit, and the Office of the Board for Non-Campus Countries & Distance ...
The UWI Five Islands campus is sited 7.5 km from the capital, St. John's, co-located with a campus of the Antigua State College. The building itself was originally built by a Chinese state construction firm for a secondary school that was never opened, due to a change of government. Instead, it was retrofitted and transferred to the College.
St. Augustine UWI Campus. The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, [2] [3] is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in the Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands ...
UWI Cave Hill. University of the West Indies at Cave Hill is a public research university in Cave Hill, Barbados. It is one of five general campuses in the University of the West Indies system. It was the third campus to be established by the UWI System, following the Mona campus in Jamaica and the St. Augustine campus in Trinidad and Tobago.
Gordon Rohlehr. Gordon Rohlehr (20 February 1942 – 29 January 2023) [2] [3] was a Guyana-born scholar and critic of West Indian literature, noted for his study of popular culture in the Caribbean, including oral poetry, calypso and cricket. [4] He pioneered the academic and intellectual study of Calypso, [5] tracing its history over several ...
In 2019, the University of the West Indies opened its fifth campus overall (and fourth physical campus) in Five Islands. [6] The country was previously served solely by the University of the West Indies Open Campus. [7] The government of Antigua and Barbuda contributes financially to the UWI.
The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre ( UWI-SRC) is a centre for volcanological, seismic and geophysical research in Trinidad, which has the responsibility for monitoring and studying earthquakes, volcanoes and tsunamis across the Eastern Caribbean. Part of the University of the West Indies, it is also responsible for ...
The Open Campus of the University of the West Indies has a site in Anguilla. [8] It also has campuses in Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica. The government of Anguilla contributes financially to the UWI. A branch of the Saint James School of Medicine was established in 2011 in Anguilla. [9]