Is UWI on right path?

MINISTER OF FINANCE Chris Sinckler is questioning whether the University of the West Indies (UWI) is allocating resources in terms of achieving the country’s economic objectives.
Noting that the cost of university education had “skyrocketed” in the past decade, Sinckler queried whether the growth areas had been targeted in the policy of putting a university graduate in every household or if the traditional areas of management, law and medicine had been reinforced.
“Did we really need, for example, a new fully articulated medical faculty to train more doctors to fight for limited spaces at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, or could we have targeted those resources more towards training in new technologies?” asked Sinckler.
“The point that I am making here is not a criticism of university’s policy . . . but that there is an urgent need for a restructuring in the way in which we allocate and target resources invested in education, to better support the building of capacity to carry forward a new economy in Barbados. I am not absolutely sure that this is happening at present,” he said. (YB)
 
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