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UWI assisting Haitian university students

Oct 28, 2010 News

The Caribbean Community has continued its assistance to its Member State Haiti, following the devastating earthquake of January 12, last, through the education system in the Region.
Eighty Haitian University students are completing their courses of study at the Mona, Jamaica and St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago campuses of the University of the West Indies (UWI) while Mona Campus librarians have been involved in the training of Haitians in that field.
The UWI participated in early assessments on the ground following the earthquake as part of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA) team and focused on short-term and emergency relief mechanisms.
In mid-March, Vice Chancellor of the UWI, Professor E. Nigel Harris, as President of the Association of Caribbean Universities and Research Institutions (UNICA), convened a meeting of that regional body at the UWI St Augustine Campus which included four UNICA Haitian institutions, the State University, Quisqueya University, Notre Dame University and University Caraïbe to determine their post-earthquake needs.
A UNICA Task Force for Haiti was established which would coordinate the UNICA response for an initial period of one year.
UWI committed to offering a scholarship programme to offer assistance to students close to completion of their degree and in September, the UWI Mona Campus welcomed 26 Haitian scholarship students from the Université d’Etat d’Haïti (UEH) on full scholarships to complete their studies at Mona for one year.
The Haitian students are all living in Halls of Residence on the campus and participating in daily English classes to improve their language competence. The students have all been warmly received by the students on the Mona campus. French majors and Creole-speaking students from Saint Lucia have been assisting the Haitian students and the International Students Office (ISO) has been coordinating the campus efforts in that regard.
The students are located in several departments including Linguistics, Pure and Applied Sciences, History and Archaeology, Psychology, and Economics. After completing the scholarship programme in Jamaica, the students will return at the end of the academic year to Haiti where they will receive their Bachelor’s degrees from the UEH.
The St. Augustine Campus offered tuition and accommodation to 70 Haitian students from the State University. Fifty-four of those students arrived in mid-September; 41 are in Engineering, 12 in Agriculture and one in Management Studies.
The students are all expected to be at St. Augustine for one semester and the International Office at St. Augustine is coordinating the initiative.
Also involved in this project are the Centre for Language Learning, Saint Lucian and other students who speak Creole, the Guild of Students and the Vice Chancellor’s Ambassadors (UWISTAT).
Meanwhile, the UWI is also engaged in other projects with Haitian Higher Education Institutions. These include a Teacher Education by distance programme under a UWI Open Campus/ Université Quisqueya partnership and a Project in Urban Planning under a UWI St Augustine / Université Quisqueya partnership both with seed money from the International Association of Universities (IAU).

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