Professor Sir Hilary Beckles (File photo)
Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, has reached out to Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, assuring that the university stands ready to mobilise any additional support needed in the wake of the eruption of the La Soufriere volcano.
In a release, the university said the scientific experts of the UWI Seismic Research Centre (UWI-SRC) have been deployed on the island since December 2020 when activity on the volcano was first detected. Over the past few months, scientific teams have been in rotation, providing ongoing monitoring and updates to Gonsalves, and working closely with the country’s National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) and offering the critical science data to help the government and its agencies in shaping public policy and response plans.
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The University of the West Indies ( The UWI) has secured a grant of US$25 million from virtual and augmented reality software developer EON Reality.
The university said this is the largest international grant that it has ever received.
The grant will see EON Reality, which is based in the US tech hub Silicon Valley; enter the Caribbean market as a post-COVID education development leader, according to The UWI.
EON Reality has a global development network with more than 20 locations worldwide and over 40 million users on its AR/VR library for education and industry.
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“UWI leadership sound and strategic” – Vice-Chancellor Hilary Beckles
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Over the past few weeks the University of the West Indies (UWI), has been assessing its performance as part of a regular exercise, through a series of presentations from its various campuses.
Culminating with the March 26 presentation by the Five Islands Campus, the Councils that govern the UWI campuses heard how the regional University has fared favourably over the 2019-2020 academic year, according to a release.
In the face of increasing challenges crippling Caribbean economies and the global higher education sector, intensified by COVID-19, the regional University has responded to support emergency online learning across its territories, helped Caribbean governments fight the pandemic, increased access to education, built strategic partnerships and overall created value for the region.
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