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Guardian Group and The UWI celebrate 15 years of collaboration

For Release Upon Receipt - November 22, 2013

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago –Guardian Group and The University of the West Indies (UWI) have, for the 15th year, teamed up  to host the Premium Teaching Open Lecture.  The Open Lecture will be held on November 29th, at The UWI’s Daaga Auditorium in St. Augustine starting at 5.30pm.  This event alternates annually with the Premium Teaching Awards and is hosted both in Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica.  The teaching awards are aimed at recognising and rewarding teaching excellence by The UWI lecturers. The Open lectures aim at raising the profile of teaching through exposure to its scholarship and best practices.  These events are consistent with Guardian Group’s promotion and achievement of excellence within the Caribbean region.  

This year’s lecture themed “Teaching – Joys and Challenges of the Greatest Profession” will be delivered by Dr. Todd Zakrajsek of the Department of Family Medicine at University of North Carolina.  Dr. Zakrajsek currently directs four National Conferences on College and University Teaching and Learning and serves on several editorial boards for journals in the area of teaching and learning;  he has also published and presented widely on the topic of teaching, academic leadership and student learning.  One of his most recent publications is a book which he co-authored with Terry Doyle: The New Science of Learning (2013).  

Among those invited to attend this lecture are Minister of Science Technology and Tertiary Education, Minister of Education and Permanent Secretaries in both ministries; Guardian Group’s Executives and Managers, Principals and Teachers of Secondary and Primary schools; Members of The UWI St. Augustine Campus community and members of other tertiary level institutions. 

The event is free and invitations can be requested from the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) at The UWI, 662-2002 Ext. 82611 or 224-3736; email at cetl@sta.uwi.edu.

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About UWI

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.) 

For the latest UWI News, click http://sta.uwi.edu/news.  About Guardian GroupThe period July and August 2013 saw the rebranding under the umbrella brand, Guardian Group of the nine (9) distinct brands of the group across Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica and the Dutch Caribbean. These companies include Guardian Asset Management in Trinidad and Tobago; Guardian Life of the Caribbean and Guardian General Insurance Ltd. in Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados; Guardian Life Limited and Guardian General Insurance Jamaica Ltd., in Jamaica; Fatum Holdings N.V. and all of its subsidiaries in Curacao and Aruba and across the Dutch Caribbean.  While the companies within the group remain separate legal entities, they all now carry a single brand name, logo and tagline, solidifying Guardian Group as the single largest brand in the insurance and financial services sector in the English and Dutch Caribbean with a rich legacy of over 165 years.

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