Towards a Strategic Plan for Outreach to the Non-Campus Countries, 1998-2002

Executive Summary

The University belongs to the contributing countries that sit on Council. This Plan is at root an attempt to move towards a more equitable response on our part to all these countries.

The University's recent Strategic Plan sees the UWI's future as the centre of a tight network of tertiary institutions in the region. This Plan is an attempt to spell out in greater detail what will be required for the University to function in that way.

The main areas of need we hope to address are:

We are constrained by the University's commitment not to seek significant increases in real funding from the contributing governments, by the intricacy of the task of co-ordinating the various players in the region's tertiary education sector, and by the need to provide resources to support any additional tasks that we undertake.

We propose to seek funding for specific items from donor agencies, and to urge affirmative action in the use of some of the University's existing resources, but the major costs of these plans will need to come from a follow-up to the current CDB Outreach Project.

We propose a strengthening of the ACTI secretariat and closer comparatively informal links with CARICOM and other regional bodies. We propose also that the University promulgate a comprehensive statement of its responsibilities (those of the faculties, departments, and individual academic and administrative staff) for the development of the region's tertiary sector.

In addressing the major areas of need, we propose to provide greater access to our programmes through:

To facilitate networking among graduates through:

To strengthen a University presence in the NCCs through:

To strengthen library/information resources through:

To strengthen research related to the NCCs by:

To find ways of providing technical assistance more efficiently through:

The full plan document provides country-by-country and disciplinary break-downs of possible action. The Office intends to discuss the full plan with all interested parties in the University in order to arrive at priorities and a set of feasible operational plans in each of the major areas of concern.


Go to Background

Present situation and constraints

Addressing needs

Country and faculty breakdown of proposals

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Office of the Board for NCC/DE

May 29, 1998. HTML prepared June 4th, 1998.

http://www.uwichill.edu.bb/bnccde/docs/sponsum.html

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