The University of the West Indies Open Campus in Dominica has officially launched its 2012 online programmes.
The 62 year old university held a media day on Wednesday to introduce its Bachelor of Education in Early Childhood Development and Family Studies.
Head of the Campus Dr. Francis Severin says the new online programme will develop the required skills and knowledge for a range of careers that involve working with children, their families and the services that support them within social, health and education.
“We think training is required for accounting, engineering, law and for these other areas and we think we can just go off the top of our heads socialize children without training but we are wrong,” he said.
He said the Dominican society needs people who are trained in the area of youth development.
“What excites me is that it is open to a wide range of people. It is for current practitioners or professionals working with young children, nurses,…” the UWI official said.
All courses are inter-disciplinary and integrated to bring together historic and complementary study of early childhood education and family studies, he explained.
uwi is a very disorganised institution….d staff dere needs proper training and needs to b better informed of the operations of the school.some of dem dont even know d proper information to give students.dey dont even kno d course materials.its like dey are just dere warming d office chair.if a question was directed to one of dem dey would say…i dont kno.. den go and ask another staff member who is blank as dem den dey tellin u u have to call back and wen u do…d process starts over and over again.lol lol lol
the front desk staff needs to be trained in customer service definitely.
Great Job Mr. Severin
But it would be nice if something could be placed online for business students who want to persue a masters (i.e Business admin, Managmenet, Accounting, Finance or project management);
when does the program begin and is registration closed?
GR8
PLease! All other universities offers a full curriculum online, from Associates degrees to doctorates all online. What is UWI doing in this respect. UWI needs to shape up or they will get left behind, taken up by all these universities from the first world.
That is a very good observation. They could compete by offering affordable degrees online in various desciplines
Well done Dr Severine