The UWI Open Campus Hosting Online Recruitment Fairs
Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal. Thursday, June 11, 2020 – With the restrictions on public gatherings as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic, The University of the West Indies (UWI) Open Campus is taking a major part of its recruitment efforts for the 2020/2021 first semester student intake online. In this regard, the Campus will host two online recruitment fairs on June 18 & 25, 2020. Both events will start at 6:00 pm Eastern Caribbean time and run for two hours.
“The management of the COVID-19 pandemic comes with several restrictions including physical distancing, and this has limited the ability of the Campus to do face-to-face promotions across the region,” explained Dr Luz Longsworth, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal of The UWI Open Campus. “The online recruitment fairs give us the opportunity to reach prospective students, provide all the information they need in one place, answer their questions and help them to make a decision about their university education.”
Day one of the online fair which takes place on Thursday, June 18, 2020, will focus on all the online programmes offered by the Campus, ranging from certificates to doctoral degrees. It will also provide information on the application process, documentation and registration as well as a live demonstration of the Learning Exchange, the platform that the campus uses to deliver its online programmes.
Day two of the online fair continues on Thursday, June 25, 2020 with the focus on the Open Campus Country Sites located in 16 countries across the Caribbean. During the two-hour online event, representatives from Open Campus Country Sites will make presentations about their local professional development programmes. They will also provide information about application, registration and costs as well as how persons can access these exciting special programmes for retooling and personal development.
These fairs will connect potential students with key campus personnel who will answer their queries.
The presentations during both events will be punctuated with entertaining performances from Open Campus students.
Live broadcast of both events will be via YouTube @ https://www.open.uwi.edu/livestream and Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/uwiopencampuscaribbean
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About The UWI
For over 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, Latin America, Asia, and Africa including the State University of New York (SUNY)-UWI Center for Leadership and Sustainable Development; the Canada-Caribbean Studies Institute with Brock University; the Strategic Alliance for Hemispheric Development with Universidad de los Andes (UNIANDES); 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. The world’s most reputable ranking agency, Times Higher Education, has ranked The UWI among the top 600 universities in the world for 2019, and the 40 best universities in Latin America and the Caribbean for 2018 and 2019.The UWI has been 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.)
