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Five of UWI’s finest awarded for teaching excellence

For Release Upon Receipt - October 3, 2012

St. Augustine


Last week Friday September 28th, 2012, five of UWI’s lecturers were awarded for their teaching techniques at the UWI/Guardian Life Premium Teaching Awards. The event took place at the Daaga Auditorium, University of the West Indies (UWI) St. Augustine Campus.

This ceremony comes out of The University’s partnership with Guardian Life of the Caribbean Ltd, to celebrate teaching excellence at The UWI. Commandeered by UWI’s Instructional Development Unit (IDU), the partnership began in 1998 and has since produced two avenues through which teaching excellence is highlighted: the Premium Teaching Awards and the Premium Open Lecture Series on learning and teaching in higher education. These events are alternated every other year.

This year’s awards Premium Teaching Awards ceremony followed the theme “Learning in this Age of Technology: Are You Ready?” Ten lecturers were nominated for award and, after evaluation of their portfolios, the judges decided on five winners – Dr. Geraldine Skeete, Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies; Dr. Gelien Matthews, Department of History; Professor Surendra Arjoon, Department of Management Studies; Dr. Sandra Reid, Psychiatry Unit, Department of Clinical Medical Sciences; and Dr. Chalapathi Rao, Pathology and Microbiology Unit, Department of Para-Clinical Sciences.

The ceremony included remarks by UWI St. Augustine Campus Principal, Professor Clement Sankat; and Group President, Life, Health and Pensions, Mr. Ravi Tewari. The evening’s feature speaker was Dr. Baldev Singh, Director of Education Strategy at Imagine Education Limited, UK, who delivered a presentation on the innovative ways that technology can be implemented in teaching.

For more information please contact the Instructional Development Unit, UWI, at idu@sta.uwi.edu or (868) 662-2002 ext. 82611.

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Over the last six decades, The University of the West Indies (UWI) has evolved from a fledgling college in Jamaica with 33 students to a full-fledged University with over 40,000 students. Today, UWI is the largest and most longstanding higher education provider in the English-speaking Caribbean, with main campuses in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, and Centres in Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, The Bahamas, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Montserrat, St Christopher (St Kitts) & Nevis, St Lucia, and St Vincent & the Grenadines. UWI recently launched its Open Campus, a virtual campus with over 50 physical site locations across the region, serving over 20 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean. UWI is an international university with faculty and students from over 40 countries and collaborative links with over 60 universities around the world. Through its seven Faculties, UWI offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Pure & Applied Sciences, Science and Agriculture, and Social Sciences. 

(Please note that the proper name of the university is The University of the West Indies, inclusive of the “The”, hence The UWI.)

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