| The last issue of “Lightrays” (June
2000) addressed matters related to the promotion of quality assurance as an indispensable
factor in the future development of the tertiary education sector in the Commonwealth
Caribbean. This current issue takes a look at the importance of forging
inter-institutional linkages among the tertiary level institutions in the region and will
in particular identify the types of formal linkages that tertiary education providers will
need to forge so as to achieve improved rationalization, deeper integration of the
regional system of tertiary education and increased opportunities for collaboration. Read more...
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Co-operation in
Caribbean Tertiary Education: TLI Unit Activities 2000-2001
by Vivienne Roberts
Over the past five years, the TLI Unit has been very active in the areas of franchising of
UWI’s programmes and assessment of Associate Degree programmes for articulation with
UWI Bachelor’s degree programmes. In 2000, negotiations concluded on behalf of
programmes at Management Institute for National Development (MIND), College of
Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), Institute of Management Sciences (IMS) and
Institute of Management Production (IMP) in Jamaica in evidence of such activity. Read more...
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Strengthening the
Culture of Co-operation in Regional Tertiary Education
by Alvin Ashton
The seemingly relentless march forward of the global economy in its many manifestations
should, by this time, be sufficient testimony both to its adherents and those in
opposition that globalisation cannot be simply wished away. Depending on one's
perception, globalisation can be considered an advanced form of increasing international
interdependence or as an unwelcome development in the affairs of nations. Read more...
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Visions of Collaboration
Between Caribbean Tertiary Level Institutions by Frances Harris,
Caribbean awareness of the value of education has spiralled beyond measure in the last ten
years. The ambitious high school graduate has visions of joining the work force as near as
possible to the top rung of the ladder and sees education as the means by which this may
be achieved. Read more...
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Benefits of Franchising
UWI Programmes to Three Colleges in the Non-Campus Countries by Kieran St. Rose
Franchising, as far as the UWI and Colleges are concerned, is an arrangement whereby the
UWI allows a College to deliver its Years 1 & 2 programmes. Part of the
requirements for granting the franchise is that the UWI Faculty members visit the College
in order to ensure that standards and quality of programmes are maintained. Read more...
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Mathematics Methodology
in the Tertiary Classroom? by
Jeff Von Kuster
As a college lecturer teaching Mathematics to students in Primary Education, Secondary
Education and a Natural Science ASc. Programme, I face a dilemma. My education
students are told about and encouraged to use learner-centred teaching methods. I expect
my student teachers to guide their students in discovering mathematics by way of hands-on
activities, cooperative learning, group assignments and class discussion. Having set
this standard for my students, are they allowed to expect the same of me? Read more...
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Web-Based Instruction:
The Benefits and Limitations of a Text-Based System by Louis Whittington
The most dramatic change, with all its related problems, in education for this century
will come from internet-based teaching and learning or Internet education/e-education as
some call it. This method of delivery has its proponents and its detractors. Read more...
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UWI’s Distance
Education and the TLIs by
Ed Brandon
I want to sketch a few possibilities that were stated in embryonic form in the
Board’s (now the University’s) Strategic Plan for Outreach to Non-Campus
Countries, but which we have yet to try to implement. Read
more...
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