VICE-CHANCELLOR’S REPORT TO COUNCIL 2022—2023
School for Graduate Studies and Research
to recover from past academic challenges, therefore enhancing their prospects of completing their degree. The guidelines document, “Strategies to Enhance Research Productivity”, was also finalised and circulated for widespread use to enhance the University’s research endeavours.
One Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarship (QECS) tenable at The UWI for citizens of low/middle income Commonwealth countries (valued at over US$26,500) was awarded to a candidate from Guyana (Master of Public Health, Mona Campus). Three Dr. Pauline O. Lawrence/Dr. Carlton G. Davis Graduate Scholarships, valued at US$3,750 each, were awarded to the students registered in the MSc Agricultural Entrepreneurship, MSc Natural Resource Management – lntegrated Urban and Rural Environmental Management and the MSc Food and Agro Processing programmes at the Mona Campus. The Enith Bradley/ICENS Scholarship, valued at J$625,743.76, was awarded to a student in the MSc Medical Physics programme at the Mona Campus. The Claudia Francis Carrigan (Postgraduate) Scholarship, valued at J$300,000, was awarded to a candidate in the MSc Economics programme at the Mona Campus.
students were registered as full-time, an increase of 7% over last year. The Faculties of Social Sciences and Humanities and Education continued to account for the majority of registrations across all campuses. Intra-Caribbean Academic Mobility Programme (ICAMP) The Intra-Caribbean Academic Mobility Programme (ICAMP), funded by the European Commission in the amount of €2M, was designed to pivot tertiary education and research in fuelling the entrepreneurial activity of Caribbean economies. The programme supports entrepreneurial postgraduate scholarships and industry internships to supply a cadre of highly trained, innovative Caribbean citizens dedicated to the economic advancement of the Caribbean’s private sector, while providing deserving Caribbean citizens with opportunities to remain within the region and contribute to “brain gain”. Eleven master’s programmes from The UWI and one from the University of Trinidad and Tobago were selected based on the content of their courses and their in-built ability to replace the research project component with an overseas internship. ICAMP’s website was developed and launched simultaneously with the scholarship application portal, and a scholarship guide was developed to assist applicants with the programmes’ offerings. Graduate Scholarships A total of BD$1,189,912 was allocated to all the campuses for UWI graduate scholarships, which allowed for twenty- five three-year awards to full-time research students. Three CCRIF scholarships with a total value of US$22,000 were awarded to students registered in master’s programmes at the Cave Hill and Mona campuses.
CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT One-UWI Faculty Mentorship Programme with Professors Emeriti
The School proudly announces the initiation of the One- UWI Faculty Mentorship Programme with esteemed Professors Emeriti. This initiative aims to enhance faculty retention, success, promotion, sense of belonging, and the cultivation of future mentors and leaders. Additionally, it will act as a crucial succession-planning tool, broadening the University’s access to a diverse pool of leaders. Aligned with the University’s strategic objectives AC3 & AC4 of the 2022–2027 Strategic Plan, the Programme focusses on promoting career advancement, scholarly growth and well-being for early and mid-career faculty. To date, nineteen Professors Emeriti from various UWI Faculties have graciously accepted the invitation to be mentors. More details can be found on the Mentorship Programme webpage at: https://www.uwi.edu/gsr/oor/ mentorship. One-UWI Research Supervisors Meeting Arising from an increasing number of issues and concerns regarding supervisory matters, the Pro Vice- Chancellor, Graduate Studies and Research convened an online meeting of Supervisors from all the campuses with the objective of providing an overview/refresher of the supervisory process at The UWI, as well as to introduce the new online Research Supervisor Development course.
REGULATIONS, POLICIES, PROCEDURES AND GUIDELINES
A number of policy documents were approved by the BGSR over the reporting period. A policy for conversion of non-GPA grades to GPA was developed and approved for students who had been admitted to the University under the special admission option (pre-GPA), as well as for those transferring credits from other institutions. New guidelines for transitioning from graduate certificates to graduate diplomas, and from graduate diplomas to masters’programmes were also approved by the BGSR, to include the operationalisation guidelines. Also approved was an academic forgiveness policy designed to offer graduate students an opportunity
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