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Whittington (2007) is shown as The consultation found that the stakeholders in the then UWI-12 countries required training in the following areas:
Table 3.2
Priority Areas Of Educational and Training Needs Identified by a Sample of UWI-12 Countries in 2007
Antigua & Barbuda
- Education
- International
Business
- Management
- Planning and
Logistics
- Social Work /
Behavioural Sciences
Grenada
- Agriculture
- Education
- Hospitality
- IT
- Skills Training / Engineering
British Virgin Islands
- Education
- Engineering/ Skills
Training
- Hospitality
- Management - Medical
Sciences/Allied Health
St. Kitts & Nevis
- Accounting, Financial Services
- Engineering, Skills Training
- Hospitality, Soft Skills
- ICT/Technology - Management,
Planning, Research
Cayman Islands Dominica
- Finance/ Banking
- Hospitality/Tourism/Soft ICT
Skills
- Management (Sales,
Marketing, Project and
Product Management
- Skills training/Tech Voc /
Apprenticeship/ Education/ Literacy
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
- Engineering, Tech Voc, - Environment
- Hospitality Tourism
- Management
- Social Work, Psychology
- Agriculture
- Behavioural Science, Social Work - Entrepreneurship
- Hospitality, Tourism
- Skills training
- Technology
The 2011 survey provided baseline data for programme selection for the Programme Implementation Plan for the SDEC Project (see PIP-SDEC-Feb 2014) and to ascertain whether the needs of the stakeholders had changed since the 2007 survey. The Campus, through its Planning and Institutional Research (PAIR) Unit, conducted a stakeholders’ needs assessment study which identified its main objective as “... determining the human resource needs of the region, especially as it relates to educational programming and research interests” (The UWI Open Campus Stakeholders’ Needs Assessment Report, p. 1). This research targeted