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The UWI campus in Mona, Jamaica, serves as the headquarters of the University Of The West Indies. Besides UWI Mona, [4] the University has four major university centres: UWI Cave Hill (Barbados), UWI St. Augustine (Trinidad and Tobago), UWI Five Islands (Antigua and Barbuda), and the regional UWI Open Campus in the UWI-funding Caribbean nations.
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 ...
Chapel on the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, on the left Aqueduct from the former sugar plantation. In 1948, the Mona campus was established as a college of the University of London. [10] It is the first campus of the multi-campus University of the West Indies system. In October 1948, it accepted 33 medical students.
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Website. carolynjoycooper.wordpress.com. Carolyn Cooper CD (born 20 November 1950) [1] is a Jamaican author, essayist and literary scholar. She is a former professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. From 1975 to 1980, she was an assistant professor at ...
The University of the West Indies Press (or UWI Press) is a university press that is part of the University of the West Indies and was founded in 1992. [2] The first book published by the press was Slave Society in the Danish West Indies: St. Thomas, St. John and St. Croix by Neville A. T. Hall. [3] Particularly noted for academic publications with a Caribbean focus, including on history ...
Leith Lorraine Dunn is a Jamaican sociologist, writer and academic. She taught at the University of the West Indies where she focused on gender and human rights, as well as acting for a consultant to the United Nations and the Caribbean Community. In 2020, she was presented the Award for Excellence by Jamaica's National Family Planning Board.
The Norman Manley Law School is located on the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, yet it is a distinct and separate institution. [1] Its building, designed by architect firm Rutkowski, Bradford & Partners, is noted as an example of Caribbean modernist architecture. [2] It is a 700 square metres (7,500 sq ft), two-storey ...
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.