Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, UWI Open Campus. Wednesday, March 18, 2020 - The University of the West Indies Open Campus regrets to announce the closure of physical offices and the suspension of face-to-face classes at its 16 Country Sites throughout the region, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Campus is working assiduously to transfer these classes to the various online learning platforms, using the available technologies, as it seeks to facilitate the continuation of classes.
The Open Campus is asking for your understanding as it commits to the training of all of its tutors and staff in using the online interface to guarantee learning continuity, and to ensure that all student matters are dealt with in a very timely and efficient manner. Ongoing Classes for the Online Programmes will not be affected by these new developments.
The media and the public will be kept updated on all changes concerning the Campus’ decision to close its physical spaces, as things progress.
The UWI Open Campus regrets any inconvenience caused and looks forward to the reopening of its offices and the resumption of face-to-face classes.
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About The UWI
For the past 70 years The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has provided service and leadership to the Caribbean region and wider world. The UWI has evolved from a university college of London in Jamaica with 33 medical students in 1948 to an internationally respected, regional 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 an Open Campus. As part of its robust globalization agenda, The UWI has established partnering centres with universities in North America, Asia, and Africa such as the State University of New York (SUNY)-UWI Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development, the UWI-China Institute of Information Technology, the University of Lagos (UNILAG)-UWI Institute of African and Diaspora Studies and the Institute for Global African Affairs with the University of Johannesburg (UJ). The UWI offers over 800 certificate, diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate degree options in Food & Agriculture, Engineering, Humanities & Education, Law, Medical Sciences, Science & Technology, Social Sciences and Sport.
As the region’s premier research academy, The UWI’s foremost objective is driving the growth and development of the regional economy. Times Higher Education (THE) has ranked The UWI among the top 1,258 universities in world for 2019, and the 40 best universities in its Latin America Rankings for 2018. It was the only Caribbean-based University to make the prestigious lists. 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.)
