Message from the Principal: Keeping our quality high
 An important aspect of managing an institution is ensuring that standards are maintained, even as you expand, meet stakeholder expectations and try to improve the current standings with each passing day. For The UWI, self-study, internal and external quality reviews and national, regional and international accreditation are drivers for our continuing quest for quality improvements. In this regard, accreditation bodies (and the reviews we steadily undertake), should not be perceived as an intrusion into internal operations. Rather, they are paragons of excellence, equipped with the measuring and evaluating tools to help organizations locate themselves along their development paths and ensure that they are keeping abreast of the targets set for them, both internally and by market standards.
Earlier this year, the St. Augustine Campus hosted a mid-term review site visit by the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT). Just over 100 members of staff were interviewed as the evaluation team sought independent perspectives about what they see as progress being made in the focused areas and how the institution might be addressing quality improvements. The focused areas included staff and space allocations; inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary teaching and research; the tension of teaching versus research; student learning, assessment and evaluation; the continuum of learning modes (blended learning developments); non-academic operational quality; and new sites and developments.
The ACTT concluded that the UWI St. Augustine Campus had shown enough evidence of development work in the areas that had been recommended when the Campus was the subject of a very comprehensive accreditation exercise in 2011and thatthe Campus was on the path towardsreaccreditationin 2017.
We are indeed pleased to know that our efforts at maintaining high standards are meeting the approval of our national accreditation body. At the same time, we are also mindful that as we continue to grow and respond to the demands of our students and stakeholders, our university must continue to raise the bar and ensure that high quality is always synonymous with our UWI brand.
EDITORIAL TEAM
Campus Principal: Professor Clement Sankat
Director of Marketing and Communications: Mrs. Dawn-Marie De
Four-Gill
Editor: Ms Vaneisa Baksh [vaneisa.baksh@sta.uwi.edu]
Contact us:
The UWI Marketing and Communications Office
Tel: (868) 662-2002 exts. 82013, 83997
Email: uwitoday@sta.uwi.edu
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