Denise Greaves, Legal and Academic Programme Co-ordinator with the University of the Southern Caribbean (Barbados).
Some prospective students visiting the booths during University of the Southern Caribbean (Barbados) Open Day recently at the Campus’ Belleville, St. Michael location.
SEEKING AN EDGE
Sun, 04/10/2016 - 12:00am
The University of the Southern Caribbean (Barbados) is hopeful its recent accreditation would give it a competitive edge.
Denise Greaves, Legal and Academic Programme Co-ordinator USC expressed this hope while sharing that the university received its accreditation last month.
“One of the things that has happened recently is that in March we have been accredited by the Accreditation Council of Trinidad and Tobago (ACTT). In March, the Barbados Accreditation Council endorsed our accreditation by ACTT, which is out of Trinidad and is now recognising us as a university out of Barbados based on our accreditation,” it was explained.
She continued, “This will mean, I am hoping that because we are accredited by the institution that students would see us as a competitor in the community and would want to become a part of the USC family.”
Greaves shared that at present the Barbados campus of the Trinidad-based university has an enrollment of 60 students. One of the most successful programmes of the university has been its programme in Nutrition and Dietetics. For this programme she said the university is working collaboratively with the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, stating that, “some of the administrators there and our students actually go there and do some of their practicum”.
Meanwhile speaking about upcoming programmes, Greaves revealed that the university in collaboration with the Barbados Diabetes Association is in the process of offering a certified Diabetes Educators programme. USC (Barbados) at month-end additionally will be conducting a Palliative Care Conference in Trinidad.
“One of the things that we have offered recently is the Palliative Care Conference. We did that in October of 2015. The Palliative Care Conference has been one of our major achievement where we went out and we brought persons from Pallium of Canada into Barbados and collaborated with them to get doctors and nurses in Barbados trained in Palliative Care. That was very successful as a one-week programme. Right now as a result of that programme we have been asked to come to Trinidad and we are doing that at the end of April. In December, we will be going to Belize and that is as a result of the October session we had here in Barbados,” Greaves further explained. (MG)