UWI Annual Report 2007/2008

Issues related to quality, quantity and reach were the primary concerns of the St. Augustine Campus during the 2007/2008 academic year as enrolment continued to climb to 15,875. The rate of growth has slowed, however, from close to 12% over the previous two years to just above five percent. Enrolment for Undergraduate degrees stands at 11,328, an increase of four percent. Post-graduate enrolment is also climbing at an encouraging rate of almost five percent and that figure now stands at 3,351. At present, research degrees – MPhils and PhDs - account for 22% of enrolment in higher degrees on the Campus. In 2007/2008, they adopted a more aggressive approach to marketing postgraduate programmes, particularly those involving research. They also focused on throughput by instituting measures to improve the quality of student supervision and the time frame for the examination of theses, to ensure that students graduate within the period stipulated.

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