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the opportunity to showcase its many strengths and the worthwhile recommendations that will result from the process.
The objectives of the Self-Assessment process are to:
1. Assess the extent to which the Campus has maintained the Institutional Accreditation Standards of the Barbados Accreditation Council;
2. Determine the progress that the Campus has made in achieving its own Action Plan items from the last accreditation process;
3. Determine to what extent the Campus has assisted the University in the achievement of its Strategic Plan, 2012-2017; and
4. Articulate how the Open Campus is Opening Doors to Life Changing Learning.
Self-Study Process
The Open Campus conducted an open and inclusive self-study process which benefitted from the involvement of internal stakeholders at all levels of the Campus hierarchical structure. The self-study process analysed the development of the Campus over the accreditation years, that is, from the academic year 2012/2013 through to 2017/2018. To facilitate this process, the Open Campus appointed a Re- Accreditation Steering Committee in August, 2017 to coordinate the accreditation self-study process.
Presentation of the Study
The self-study report is written in such a way that each chapter may be independent of the whole. However, the individual chapters do weave into an interconnected matrix. It also includes some built-in redundancies to facilitate cross referencing on the part of the reader.
Structure of the Re-Accreditation Steering Committee
This Committee consisted of thirteen persons who represented all the internal stakeholder groupings within the Campus, namely, Office of the Principal, Office of
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