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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 3RD AUGUST, 2014
The UWI St. Augustine’s
Department of
Geography, in collaboration with the Institute
for Gender and Development Studies (IGDS),
the School of Education and the Women’s
Institute for AlternativeDevelopment (WINAD),
is conducting a national study to investigate
the livelihoods and futures of adults who have
dropped out of school.
The study, titled
A Matter of Survival:
A life-course approach to understanding the
decision-making and economic livelihoods
of school dropouts in Trinidad and Tobago
will investigate the life-course trajectories and
complex decision-making of early school leavers
in Trinidad & Tobago in order to analyse their
challenges and successes since leaving school,
returns to education or training, and economic
stability and livelihoods.
The project has engaged in community-
based training of about 50 researchers across the
country, including Tobago, who are currently
conducting surveys and interviews with adults
between the ages of 18 and 45 who had left
school before completing either the primary
or secondary school completing exams. The
study, which started in September 2013 and
ends in March, 2015, hopes to de-stigmatize
the discourse of school dropouts, and provide
data required to affect the agendas of NGOs and
the Government (including the Ministries of
Education, National Security, Gender and Youth,
and People and Social Development) towards
poverty reduction, building human capital,
strengthening families and communities, and
planning tools and resources to decrease truancy,
delinquency, and criminality.
The project team is composed of Principal
Investigator, Dr Priya Kissoon (Department
of Geography); Co-Investigator, Dr Jennifer
Collymore (Department of Geography); and
Data Analysis Collaborators: Prof Patricia
Mohammed (IGDS), Dr Jeniffer Mohammed
(School of Education), Dr Matthew Wilson
(Department of Geography), Dr Joseph Springer
(Ryerson University, Toronto), and Folade
Mutota (WINAD).
If your organis at ion provides any
programmes or services that support early
school leavers and you would like to tell the
researchers about the work that you do, please
call the Research Project Office at 662-2002 ext.
84130 or email
If you are an early school leaver (or know of an
early school leaver) and would like to share your
story with the researchers, please call WINAD at
621-2495 or email
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AMatter
of Survival
UWI student Isiah Pollard
received high commendation at
the 2014World Karate Union Hall of Fame Championships
and the Legends Hall of Fame Championships held
during June 21-22 and 28-29 respectively in Pennsylvania,
USA. Pollard is a student at The UWI Sport and Physical
Education Centre’s Diploma in the Art and Science of
Coaching programme at UWI and was Team Captain for
the National Team, under the Trinidad and Tobago Unified
Martial Arts Federation.
Pollard won three first place belts in weapons katas,
self-defence and sparring respectively; a third place medal
in katas, and two grand championship crowns in weapons
katas and sparring at the 2014 World Karate Union Hall
of Fame Championships. At the Legends Hall of Fame
Championships, he was awarded two first place trophies
in katas and weapons katas respectively, two third place
trophies in traditional katas and team demonstration
respectively; and a 6ft grand championship trophy for
weapons katas.
The 25-year-old student was also nominated in the 2014
Extraordinary Contributions to the Martial Arts category
at the Legends Hall of Fame Championship event and was
recognized as an International Competitor and Ambassador
under the World Karate Union Organization.
The World Karate Union (WKU) Hall Of Fame was
established in 1996 to honour martial artists for their
contributions to the martial arts. Nominees are selected
through ballots which are sent throughout the United States,
Europe, Russia, South America, Canada, the West Indies
and Australia. The WKU Hall of Fame event is considered
“prestigious” and is attended by many notable martial arts
VIPs.
Pollard is a member of the Black Hawks Martial Arts
Management Network.
World Karate Championships Champ
JOINING FORCES
OnTuesday July15, 2014
, a formal ceremony sawthe signing
of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the
UWI School of Business and Applied Studies Limited
(trading as ROYTEC), and the International American
University (IAU). The signing took place at the Office of the
Campus Principal, at The UWI, St. Augustine.
This MOU will allow the institutions to collaborate to
offer a range of programmes including the Associate and
Bachelor’s Degree in Pharmacy; the Pharmacy Technician
Certificate, the Emergency Medical Technician Diploma;
the Hospitality Certificate; the Bachelor’s Degree inNursing
and the 4-Year MD, among others.
It also relates to several general areas for collaboration
between these two bodies, including relevant research
programmes; collaborative research in mutually agreed
areas; as well as undergraduate and graduate internships
in various disciplines.
Campus Registrar and Secretary to the Board of
Directors of UWI School of Business and Applied Studies
Limited, Mr. Richard Saunders, gave opening remarks,
followed by welcome remarks by Pro Vice-Chancellor and
Campus Principal and Chairman of the Board of Directors
of UWI School of Business and Applied Studies Limited,
Professor Clement Sankat. President of the IAU, Mr. K. G.
Manmadhan Nair then delivered his remarks, after which
the Memorandum of Understanding was signed. Campus
Registrar and Secretary to the Board of Directors of UWI
School of Business andApplied Studies Limited, Mr. Stephen
Sheppard, gave the vote of thanks.
Professor Samuel Ramsewak, Dean, Faculty of Medical
Sciences, Mr. Errol Simms, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences,
as well as members of Campus Executive Management,
were also present.
OUR CAMPUS
(L–R) Campus Principal and Pro Vice-Chancellor,
Professor Clement Sankat, and President of the
International American University, Mr. K. G.
Manmadhan Nair
