Vice-Chancellor's Report to University Council 2018/2019

Database of Agreements The OGA continued the development and maintenance of the database of agreements to keep track of the University’s regional and international reach through a wide variety of partnerships. The database facilitates the systematic collection, storing, sharing and analysis of the information pertinent to regional and international collaboration across the University, allowing for a more effective implementation of The UWI’s international thrust. To the end of July 2019, there were over 400 agreements in the database (expired and current). Agreements facilitated by the OGA included: • Service Agreement with Florida International University (FIU) for three FIU courses to be included in The UWI’s Master of Science degree in Hospitality Management, executed on August 3, 2018. • Memorandum of Agreement with the University of Leuphana, Germany, for a dual LLM degree, executed on October 12, 2018. • Consortium agreement with University of Western Cape, University of Cape Town, American University of Beirut (executed on November 28, 2018), with the University of Ghana-Legon and the University of Witwatersrand added subsequently), and sub- award agreement with the University of Western Cape (executed on November 27, 2018), for Other Universals: Theories from Postcolonial Locations on Politics and Aesthetics Project . • MOU with the University of Prince Edward Island (Institute of Island Studies) Canada, and The UWI (Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies), executed on December 12, 2018. • Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, executed on February 25, 2019.

CARPHA on Caribbean Health Policy, executed on February 26, 2019 during the 30 th Inter-sessional Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government Meeting. Three agreements with Brock University executed on April 5, 2019. • MOU to work towards establishing a joint institute for Canada-Caribbean Studies;

Jamaica Defence Force (Caribbean Military Academy), executed on May 7, 2019.

• Memorandum of Agreement with the University of Leicester for co-hosting a one-week international summer school over five years, executed on June 20, 2019.

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Student Exchange (renewal); and

General Co-operation agreement (renewal).

Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of The UWI (left) and Lieutenant General Rocky Meade, Chief of Defence Staff, Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), sign the Memorandum of Understanding between the two institutions at the Directorate of Training and Doctrine, Up Park Camp, Kingston, Jamaica on May 7, 2019. The UWI will assist the JDF in the development of the Caribbean Military Academy (CMA), the academic arm of the JDF, to improve the standard of its programmes to enable it to achieve international accreditation.

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