TRINIDAD UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES COMPETITION, CARIBBEAN HIGHER EDUCATION
January 1st, 2006
BY WESLEY GIBBINGS, in Port of Spain
THE NEW national university for the Caribbean archipelago of Trinidad & Tobago has distributed 500 degrees and diplomas and five honorary doctorates even before construction of a main campus building has been completed. The apparent anomaly is partially explained by the fact that the new University of Trinidad and Tobago (UTT) has assimilated the teaching staff, building and student population of the now-defunct, Trinidad-government Institute of Technology (TTIT) back in 2003. Three campus centres, including the UTT ...
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