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UWI TODAY
– SUNDAY 7TH JUNE, 2015
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UWI Calendar
of
Events
JUNE–SEPTEMBER 2015
Caribbean Tertiary Level
Personnel Conference
June 10-13
Radisson Hotel,
Port of Spain
The Caribbean Tertiary Level Personnel Association,
CTLPA presents their 18th Annual Conference on
the theme: “Collaborating, Connecting, Creating &
Committing.”The featured speaker is CPA President,
Gavin W. Henning.
For further information visit
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Caribbean Environmental Law
August 23-29
9am-4pm
Asa Wright Nature Centre
The Faculty of Law in collaboration with the Asa
Wright Nature Centre (AWNC) presents “UWI/
AWNC Continuing Legal Education Course:
Caribbean Environmental Law.”
Tuition Fees are US$700.
For more information, please visit the Campus Events
Calendar at
Human Communication Studies
Conference
September 24-25
The UWI, St. Augustine
The UWI St. Augustine presents the “Human
Communication Studies Conference” with the
theme “Identity, Context and Interdisciplinarity in
Human communication Studies in the Caribbean
and beyond.” The deadline for submission of
papers has been extended to June 15. Requests for
interdisciplinary collaborative research such as
communication studies education; communication,
culture and gender; media, culture and society and
other related topics are requested.
For further information,
visit
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Open Day
June 16-18
9am to 6pm
UWI St. Augustine
TheUWI St.Augustinewill host a jointUndergraduate
and Postgraduate Open Day at the JFK Undercroft
which will include Campus and Faculty tours,
access to support services as well as access to the
Applications Centre.The Applications Centre will be
re-opened specifically for the three days to facilitate
new applications.
For further information visit
Best Practice in Higher Education
June 24-26
The UWI St. Augustine
The UWI’s Quality Assurance Unit and Centre
for Excellence in Teaching and Learning will host
a regional conference on “Institutionalising Best
Practice in Higher Education.”This three-day forum
will bring together amix of regional and international
subject matter experts to deepen knowledge and
share ways of infusing best practice principles in the
management and administration of higher education
institutions.
For further information,
email:
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International Breadfruit Conference
July 5-10
Faculty of Food and Agriculture,
The UWI St. Augustine
The Faculty of Food and Agriculture (FFA) will
host the 2015 International Breadfruit Conference
under the theme “Commercialising breadfruit for
food and nutrition security.” This event is aimed at
realising the potential of breadfruit to contribute
to food and nutrition security through promoting
entrepreneurial efforts and development of industries
and features a keynote address by Dr. Diane Ragone –
Director of the Breadfruit Institute at Kauai, Hawaii.
There will also be an exhibition on the many uses
of breadfruit and breadnut (chataigne) where food
and produce will be on sale and open to the public.
For further information,
email:
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