Cave Hill Campus – Barbados
RENEWAL OF THE FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Rebuilding a renewed and revitalised Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) is critical to transforming the Cave Hill Campus as a smart campus, assisting our governments in establishing smart cities and introducing e-technologies throughout the public service, and of course, the overall promotion of growth in science, technology, mathematics and innovation. The renewal of the FST remains the single largest strategic planning imperative for the Cave Hill Campus. With a CDB funded grant, Bank (CDB), MindBloom Consultants have completed, a feasibility study on the programmatic and infrastructural renewal of the Faculty of Science and Technology. The Campus has accepted the recommendations to establish a Commercial Analytical Laboratory (CAL); a Centre for Data Science; and the mounting of short courses that would earn revenue for the Faculty and Campus. Consultations reveal great demands by the private sector for these services since there is no existing local facility catering to their needs. With this laboratory, companies will no longer have to send their requests to North America. The Campus has identified an ideally located building for accessibility and delivery and detached from other structures that can be used for the CAL. The CAL is projected to earn revenue of $1. 32 million in its first year of operations with a projected 5-10% growth in revenue.
Science and Technology students in the classroom.
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