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Thousands show up for UWI St. Augustine’s 3-day Open Day

For Release Upon Receipt - July 12, 2022

St. Augustine


ST. AUGUSTINE, Trinidad and Tobago. Tuesday 12th July 2022 – Thousands inclusive of prospective students and their families, staff and corporate sponsors flocked to The University of the West Indies (The UWI) St. Augustine Campus, for a 3-day Open Day experience that ran from July 8 to 10, 2022. The Campus issued a general invitation for prospects to ‘jump in a car; hop on a shuttle; bring your friends and family to enjoy a day on Campus’. 

There were expo-style Faculty booths in the JFK Quadrangle, Faculty information sessions in the JFK Lecture Theatre; and an on-site application centre complete with advisers on the process as well as on bursaries, scholarships, and other funding mechanisms. In addition to the expo, there were giveaways, tours of Student Halls, and lots of food to make it a wonderful family and friends’ day. 

Zion Benjamin, an applicant in the Faculty of Medical Sciences loved the Faculty’s booth: “It was so engaging! I got to learn CPR and to do a suture. I was able to think about it and decide if this is really what I want to do.” 

A parent, Fazal Mohammed, has a son beginning at the St. Augustine Campus this academic year, studying engineering; his daughter is also carded to enter the university in 2023. “It’s the first time visiting the Campus and the Open Day. I was very impressed. Engineering will be a whole new chapter of his life.” 

Pro Vice-Chancellor and Campus Principal of The UWI St. Augustine Campus, Professor Brian Copeland was delighted at the response and the engagement. “After two years of online and hybrid teaching and learning, it’s good to see the Campus come alive with young people again as we prepare for a return to pre-Pandemic teaching from September.” 

Mrs. Wynell Gregorio, Director of Marketing and Communications which also has responsibility for student recruitment, noted that, the Open Days is part of a series of online and face-to-face activities encouraging prospects to apply. These activities included an evening in June at the Hilton Trinidad which was dedicated to Postgraduate study and allowed prospective students to fully engage with relevant Faculty and staff. 

The application deadline is July 31, 2022. Interested persons can log on to https://sta.uwi.edu/ to apply. 

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About The UWI 

The UWI has been and continues to be a pivotal force in every aspect of Caribbean development; residing at the centre of all efforts to improve the well-being of people across the region. 

From a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948, The UWI is today an internationally respected, global university with near 50,000 students and five campuses: Mona in Jamaica, St. Augustine in Trinidad and Tobago, Cave Hill in Barbados, Five Islands in Antigua and Barbuda and its Open Campus, and 10 global centres in partnership with universities in North America, Latin America, Asia, Africa and Europe. 

The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Culture, Creative and Performing Arts, Food and Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities and Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science and Technology, Social Sciences, and Sport. As the Caribbean’s leading university, it possesses the largest pool of Caribbean intellect and expertise committed to confronting the critical issues of our region and wider world. 

The UWI has been consistently ranked among the top universities globally by the most reputable ranking agency, Times Higher Education (THE). In the latest World University Rankings 2022, released in September 2021, The UWI moved up an impressive 94 places from last year. In the current global field of some 30,000 universities and elite research institutes, The UWI stands among the top 1.5%. 

The UWI is the only Caribbean-based university to make the prestigious lists since its debut in the rankings in 2018. In addition to its leading position in the Caribbean, it is also in the top 20 for Latin America and the Caribbean and the top 100 global Golden Age universities (between 50 and 80 years old).  The UWI is also featured among the leading universities on THE’s Impact Rankings for its response to the world’s biggest concerns, outlined in the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including Good Health and Wellbeing; Gender Equality and Climate Action. 

For more, visit www.uwi.edu. 

(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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