Special Projects

The TLIU has undertaken several special projects in its drive for collaboration and co-operation within the Caribbean Tertiary Education system.

Our goal is to identify, design and manage the implementation of special projects to further the goals of institutional development, inter-institutional co-operation and training and research.

The Tertiary Education Programme 

The OECS/EDF/UWI TLIU Tertiary Education Programme was a three year project which began in 1998 and ended in 2001. During that time the project's secretariat was housed at TLIU - Cave Hill and was responsible for the management, planning and administration of the project and production of project materials. The School of Education - UWI Cave Hill was/and is responsible for programme content, programme monitoring, and examination and certification of the STTP component of the project.  The OECS Secretariat was the co-ordinating agency responsible for the OECS (LOMÉ IV) Tertiary Education Project and the European Union (EU) was the external funding agency.

The project was designed to address two critical needs facing the Eastern Caribbean, these were the development of a standardised training programme for secondary school teachers, The Secondary Teachers' Training Programme (STTP) and to establish stronger linkages between OECS colleges and the UWI through the The Associate Degree Programme.

The On-line Masters in Education 

The TLIU in collaboration with the Department of Education, UWI Mona developed a proposal to deliver an On-line Masters in Education, which has been approved by the Board for Graduate Studies and Research.

The Delivery of the On-line Masters in Education responds to the personal, national and regional development needs for the trained personnel in the tertiary institutions and the senior administrators of Ministries of Education. 

Pathways to Tertiary Education and Careers in the Caribbean

In 2001, the UWI Board for Non-Campus Countries and Distance initiated a research project -called Pathways to Tertiary Education and Careers in the Caribbean seeking a way to establish and document the pathways that are being used by students in the Caribbean to access tertiary education.  It is envisaged that this information will be instructive and useful in formulating policies and processes relating to more effective articulation among institutions throughout the region. 

Windward Islands Training Project

The Windward Island Training Project was designed specifically to provide training to banana farmers and displaced banana workers resulting from the declining banana industry due to the ruling of the World Trade Organisation. It served to support the development of a diversified workforce in the Windward Islands (Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent & the Grenadines) by providing short-term in-country and out-of-country training,  and graduate level training, through scholarships, that were pursued at universities in the USA.