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Professor Ebenezer Owusu, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Ghana; Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of The UWI sign the Memorandum of Understanding which focuses on research, teaching and educational collaborations between the two institutions, while Pro-Vice-Chancellor & Principal of The UWI, Cave Hill Campus Professor V. Eudine Barriteau looks on.

UWI, University of Ghana sign MOU

Students from the leading University in West Africa will have the opportunity to study in Barbados.

Yesterday, The University of the West Indies (UWI) and The University of Ghana renewed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which according to Pro-Vice-Chancellor & Principal of The UWI, Cave Hill Campus Professor V. Eudine Barriteau, provides the framework for an Articulation Agreement.

“This MOU really represents the strengthening and the deepening of our relationship to develop and deliver a Preclinical programme to students from The University of Ghana,” she revealed.

“Led by the Dean of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, Dr Peter Adams and his team, they have worked assiduously to develop this proposal. The proposal means that when the Articulation Agreement is signed, Ghanaian students will come to Barbados for three years and complete the Preclinical Programme in Medicine and return to The University of Ghana and complete the clinical years there.”

Professor Barriteau highlighted that The UWI’s medical programme has double accreditation from the Caribbean Accreditation Body and the National Accreditation Body of the United States.

“What it means is that the United States Department of Education recognises our programme in medicine as having comparability – of being of the same standard – so students of the US who want to do medicine can study here, but we have limitations because we are limited by the places at the teaching hospital – the Queen Elizabeth Hospital,” she pointed out.

“We have capacity in the preclinical programme and hence we are advancing through our internationalisation agenda and deepening relations with countries and universities like Ghana to bring students to Barbados.”

Lauding the collaboration, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, Vice-Chancellor of The UWI expressed, “We now have a circumstance where two medical faculties can go to work and do some fantastic research and lay the foundation for maybe solutions to our problems.”

“This MOU is an act of responsibility for all of us who know our past and who are planning for our future to come together as one community to do what is necessary, and to be able to host students from The University of Ghana, in the medical faculty, where we are doing some remarkable research that is of significance to all of us,” he said.

Professor Ebenezer Owusu, Vice-Chancellor of The University of Ghana told UWI officials that the partnership is extremely important, stressing that if universities are to strive, then there will be a need to link with each other.

“No institution is an island unto itself. So, if we want to develop then we have to get into these kinds of partnerships, so we can at least make up for our weaknesses and make sure that are able to get our strengths translated into great efforts. So, we regard this partnership as an important one, not only for us, but for The UWI. It’s going to be a win-win partnership,” she said. (TL)

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