VICE-CHANCELLOR’S REPORT TO COUNCIL 2022—2023
Board for Undergraduate Studies
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Scholarships/bursaries/grants awarded in J$ totalled: J$13,232,089.00/ US$8,5737.61 Scholarships/bursaries/grants awarded in US$ totalled: US$286,261.67 Scholarships /bursaries/grants awarded in CAD$ totalled: CAD$190,000.00/US$142,217.85
Lochan, S. and Thurab-Nkhosi, D. 2023. “Maintaining and Enhancing Blended and Online Teaching and Learning: Lessons Learnt from Student Experiences of Select Programmes During the Pandemic Period” . Presentation at the CANQATE Conference on the theme “Higher Education Quality and Workforce Development in the Caribbean: Issues, Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions”, October 24–27, 2023, Hilton Hotel, Trinidad and Tobago
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ALIGNMENT
Publications by staff for the period under review include:
National and Regional Alignment During the year under review, the PVC BUS continued to serve on several committees and boards including Chair, Board for Undergraduate Studies; Chair, The University Quality Management Committee; Barbados Museum and Historical Society; Caribbean Credit Rating Services; Central Bank of Barbados; Fiscal Oversight Commission, St. Vincent and The Grenadines and JMMB Global. All members of the QAU conducted research and published in their own areas of academic interest, presented lectures, and gave seminar or conference presentations. Other presentations by QAU at CANQATE 2023: Thurab-Nkhosi, D. 2023. “Quality Assurance in Course Development and Delivery in a Post-Pandemic World: Riding the Wave of Technology Transformations”. Presentation at the CANQATE Conference on the theme Higher Education Quality and Workforce Development in the Caribbean: Issues, Challenges, Opportunities and Solutions, October 24–27, 2023, Hilton Hotel, Trinidad and Tobago
Thurab-Nkhosi, D., co-authored with Jovanca Smith, Sharad Maharaj, Arvind Singh and Chris Maharaj (In press) “An Evaluation of Emergency Remote Teaching in Engineering Based on a Community of Inquiry Framework”. Journal of Engineering Education Transformations Thurab-Nkhosi, D. Ed [In press] Re-visioning Education 2030: Towards Quality Lifelong Learning Opportunities for All [Kingston, Jamaica: The University of the West Indies Press. Thurab-Nkhosi, D. [Chapter in press]. “Conversations on Reimagining Higher Education”. In Thurab-Nkhosi Ed. Re-visioning Education 2030: Towards Quality Lifelong Learning Opportunities for All . Kingston, Jamaica: The University of the West Indies Press. Thurab-Nkhosi, D. [Chapter in press] “Rethinking teaching and learning in Higher Education: Preparing for the ‘New Normal’” in Prospects and Challenges for Caribbean Societies in and Beyond COVID-19 . Springer Nature
Campus Principal at Mona with Student
Mrs. June Wheatley-Holness presents at CANQATE 2023
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