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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES has launched a programme which will see it recruiting students from a much earlier age.

Speaking at the opening of the UWI 101 programme in the Arts Lecture Theatre on Monday, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education, Dr Jennifer Obidah, said it was one way of making sure future generations knew about UWI and what it had to offer.

She admitted that the programme was on one hand a way to address the fall-off in enrolment, which she said prompted them to think of ways of “reintroducing UWI, in a more dynamic way, to the Barbadian and also regionally and internationally”.

Please read the full story in today’s Midweek Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

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