Higher Education in Barbados: Contributing to Development in the Caribbean

Sandra L. Thomas

Sandra Thomas

Education in the Commonwealth Caribbean and the Netherlands Antilles.

Emel Thomas and Colin Brock

Bloomsbury Academic

2014

Education around the World Series

London

The chapter examines the development of the tertiary sector of the education system in Barbados. It looks at the role higher education plays in responding to local and regional developmental needs. It briefly traces major milestones in the expansion of tertiary education in the country and explores how these are linked to progress in the island and beyond. It also explores the contribution of the Cave Hill Campus of the West Indies (UWI) to the development of Barbados and the region and some of the challenges this institution faces as it seeks to fulfill this role in the twenty-first century

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Higher educationTertiary educationcaribbean development