ISSUE 20 March 2017 Meet Simone Delzin 2017 Rhodes Scholar MEDICAL STAMP OF APPROVAL ISSUE 20 : March 2017 Contents Discourse Student-Centered 1 The Making of a Smart Campus 31 Scholarly Excellence Recognised A PUBLICATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES, News 32 Humanities Students CAVE HILL CAMPUS, BARBADOS 2 Medical All Clear Experience South Africa 3 Prince Meets Medical Faculty 36 Improving the Student Experience We welcome your comments and feedback 4 Donors Helping Students which can be directed to to Stay on Track 37 Spanish Conquerors [email protected] 38 Operation Smart Campus Or Chill c/o Office of Public Information 4 Sad Farewell UWI, Cave Hill Campus 5 Cave Hill Preparing for 39 Fuse IT: Enhancing Bridgetown, BB11000, Barbados The UWI Games Student Experience Tel (246) 417-4076 / (246) 417-7529 5 Study To Assist With 40 Students Test Managing Sargassum Financial Skills EDITOR: 6 UWItv Launched 41 UWI Launches Youth Chelston Lovell Development Strategy CONSULTANT EDITOR: 7 Biosafety Students Marva Cossy Excel People CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: 7 EBCCI Hosting AFTA Rasheeta Dorant Conference 22 Wanderer With Many Homes PHOTO EDITOR: 45 Elizabeth Watson Lisa Yarde 8 Mapping Gains and Looking Ahead 48 Grantley Trebble: Learning EDITORIAL ASSISTANT: Lisa Yarde 10 Medical Sciences Becomes a Life-Changing Educate and Inform Adventure Research CONTRIBUTORS: 11 Brexit: The Caribbean’s Next Move Research Angela Alleyne PhD Ian Craig PhD 51 Proposals for Better Marsha Boyce Margaret Harris 12 Cricket Centre Acquires Unique Collection Sea Egg Management George Brathwaite PhD Dale Lynch 54 Sugary Drinks Taxes In Focus Margaret Broomes Richard Thomas 12 For the Victims of Violence 55 Researchers Probe Bullying Adrian Cashman PhD UWI Centre 13 2017 Rhodes Scholar in Primary Schools CERMES WILLCOM 17 Help For Haiti 56 Researchers Leading 18 Here to Help Charge for Change PHOTOGRAPHY: 58 Kenmore Bynoe Brian Elcock Air Flow Makes All Awards The Difference CERMES Ramar Haynes 19 Reifer Earns Excellence Award 60 Answering the Chavier Cummins Linn-Charlott Nilsen 22 Four Honoured By Principal Marijuana Question Steven Daniel Grantley Trebble 23 Academy of Sport Shines Simone Delzin WILLCOM at Awards Publications Brendon Duncan 61 New Book and App Making Perspective Maths Learning Easier Cover Photo by Brian Elcock 24 Time Running Out to Solve 63 British Barbarism in Barbados Graphic Design by Mark Headley Water Problem 64 Sir Alister Shares His 26 Human Development, Experiences Sustainability, and Cave Hill’s Challenge Printed in Barbados. © 2017 30 Multiple Choice’s Negative Impact Discourse The Making of a Smart Campus DISCOURSE The Making of a Smart Campus hroughout the lifespan of any organism, it will likely be subjected to T changes in its external environment which mandate that it evolve or expire. Organisations are no different. Faced with the need to embrace change or dissolve into history, they will often seek to re-engineer their Professor V. Eudine Barriteau, GCM component parts for optimum performance in order to maintain or Pro Vice-Chancellor and Principal, achieve impact, sustainability and growth. UWI, Cave Hill Campus. For more than half a century, The University of the West Indies at Cave Hill has operated on a funding model which was introduced in the early 1960s. That model has reached We will emphasise smart learning, using technology to its limits and is in its dying throes. The university, designed to enhance the student experience, to reach a wider audience, provide a tertiary education that would advance the human to achieve better communication, and we will seek to resource needs of the region, has not completed its mission integrate the smart campus into neighbouring business of facilitating social mobility and regional sustainability. communities. Our smart campus proposal is intended to It therefore has to be repositioned, not only to continue position Cave Hill Campus as an integral, but seamless driver providing higher education that is applicable to the 21st of services, resources and intellectual capital in an urban, century, but to do so in a manner that ensures its own business and residential community. sustainability and relevance. The Faculty of Science and Technology will play a critical As part of a wider regional tertiary level ecosystem, which role in our strategy to build a smart campus. It is the nerve is preparing to roll out a new five year strategic plan to centre for the long-term transformation of the learning, help revitalise Caribbean development, the administration delivery, integration, investment and spatial culture of and management at Cave Hill are laying the groundwork the campus. We will improve the quality of the learning to reposition the campus as a smart campus and a unique environment and the quality of the research undertaken. provider of higher education within The UWI family. Guided Growth in science, technology and innovation is fundamental by The UWI’s Triple A objectives of Access, Alignment and to the advance of Caribbean societies. We expect to create a Agility, we have embarked on a reconceptualisation of this state of the art facility befitting a 21st century Campus. campus’ strategic development that include but are not limited to: Our internationalisation thrust will be strengthened by our growth of English as a Second Language immersion Rebuilding student enrolment which declined sharply after • programme, programmatic offerings through the Confucius the introduction in 2014 of tuition fees for Barbadians; Institute, and the provision of medical education to • Pursuing smart diversification and growth at Cave Hill in international students. a manner that embraces the relevance of a liberal arts Deeper engagement with the private sector will help with education; our efforts at greater self-reliance. The development of an • Adopting a more aggressive policy of internationalisation; agro-business science park driven by our Centre for Food • Strengthening the campus’ alignment with industry and Security and Entrepreneurship and the establishment of corporate establishments. an Office of Research and Innovation will strengthen our While cognisant of the need to tap into non-traditional linkages with industry and the corporate sector, and the regional and international markets to bolster student commercialisation of our applied research. enrolment, we have also devised several mechanisms to The Cave Hill Campus is resolute, resilient and committed to help cushion the financial hardship wrought on Barbadian the revitalisation of Barbados and Caribbean development. nationals. Signalling our intent not to abandon our host We are simultaneously navigating financial austerity while citizens, we have embarked on a vigorous public information being propelled by existing opportunities to maintain financial programme and recruitment drive targeting high schools. sustainability and Campus relevance. We have undertaken As a smart campus, we will seek to harness the changes a number of measures to work through and beyond our in technology, including mobile applications, big data and economic difficulties. We are refashioning the strategic the Internet of things, as we move towards improving development of the Cave Hill Campus as a smart campus, educational delivery and pedagogy. We intend to revolution- dedicated to expanded access, transforming the skilled ise the education system through diversification of content labour force and growing applied research and innovation and widespread application of information technology while to advance Caribbean societies. We are working towards maintaining vigilance over quality and student-centredness. greater financial self-sufficiency. CHILL NEWS 1 News Medical All Clear NEWS Medical students from the Class of 2015: (l-r) Hamzah Suleman, Mohammed Akojee and Abeo Ogunsheye with lecturer Dr. Jacqueline Vigilance MEDICAL ALL CLEAR Endorsement enables faculty to attract ESS THAN A DECADE after opening a full-fledged by Chelston FacultyLovell of Medical Sciences, Cave Hill Campus has more US students Lreceived a stamp of approval that positions it to explained that the US approval signifies that The UWI Faculty enroll an influx of American students who wish to pursue a of Medical Sciences has met US standards of comparability in medical career. the provision of medical education. The US currently boasts Late last year the United States Department of Education’s some of this hemisphere’s leading institutions for physician National Committee on Foreign Medical Education and training, including some of the world’s top ranked medical Accreditation (NCFMEA) endorsed the recognition which schools renowned for research and patient care. was given to the University of the West Indies medical Barriteau noted that following the NCFMEA recognition, programme by the region’s regulatory body, the Caribbean Cave Hill has started to lay the groundwork to ensure that Accreditation Authority for Education in Medicine and other it aligns its programmatic offerings to attract U.S students Health Professions (CAAM-HP). The endorsement means who may wish to study medicine in Barbados, and later that federal loans may now be used by American students return to the US for medical practice. to study medicine at The University of the West Indies “If we want to target American students specifically we (UWI). have to revise our curriculum and offer a curriculum The highly coveted sanction was a pivotal moment for that meets the United States Medical Licensing Education the UWI Faculty of Medical Sciences, as it makes Cave Hill (USMLE); we don’t have that curriculum yet. We have Campus the only medical school operating in Barbados additional steps to take. We also don’t want students which has acquired such recognition. Principal and Pro Vice-Chancellor Professor Eudine Barriteau Continued on Page 3 2 CHILL NEWS Prince Meets Med Faculty NEWS Continued from Page 2 coming one by one. We would prefer a cohort and to get the cohort we have work to do hence the additional steps. “A student can come right now on his or her own volition, but what they will be doing is the programme which we have that caters for medical education in the Caribbean.