A 15 PER CENT salary increase accepted by academic staff of The University of the West Indies (UWI) will not be paid this week as initially agreed on after the tertiary institution indicated to union representatives that it will not be able to meet.
My column last Sunday, “Dunce educators failing students,” provoked the usual hostile responses on The Gleaner’s website. “Chapter 1” posted several comments. In at least two, he branded me as “di patwah daktah.” That sick burn certainly does not.
All that noise about those ‘Dunce’ backpacks has died down so quickly. On Friday, I googled ‘dunce backpack Jamaica’ and got 37,500 results in 0.19 seconds. A whole heap of people were nyamming up themselves at the start of the new school year. I.
Dr Kevin Brown, president of the University of Technology (UTech), is hopeful that the Government will meet the salary demands of the entire staff population at the institution, as he believes this will determine whether high quality education.
'While the grass is growing, the horse is starving!' That's the best proverb Professor Hubert Devonish, leader of the West Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) Jamaica's negotiating team could use yesterday to describe the disgust of.