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'University fi stone dog'
Published: Sunday | September 13, 2009
Carolyn Cooper, Contributor
Cooper
According to the latest figures on the website of the University Council of Jamaica, there are 48 "registered institutions and training units" doing business in the country. Two other institutions are "candidates for registration." So we'll soon have a grand total of 50 registered "universities".
This does not include the miscellaneous offshore and on-line universities that are offering programmes in Jamaica but simply haven't bothered to register. Recently, a wicked caller on a talk show mischievously observed that we now have more universities than basic schools.
Not every institution registered with the council claims the weighty name of 'university'. Most are colleges or institutes. And this is as it should be. The primary mark of distinction of a university is that it maintains a vibrant graduate-research programme. By contrast, a college specialises in undergraduate education. One of the institutions registered by the council is a 'university college,' described on its own website as "[e]ffectively a hybrid of some of the functions of a university and a traditional college".
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...cleisure5.html
Published: Sunday | September 13, 2009
Carolyn Cooper, Contributor
Cooper
According to the latest figures on the website of the University Council of Jamaica, there are 48 "registered institutions and training units" doing business in the country. Two other institutions are "candidates for registration." So we'll soon have a grand total of 50 registered "universities".
This does not include the miscellaneous offshore and on-line universities that are offering programmes in Jamaica but simply haven't bothered to register. Recently, a wicked caller on a talk show mischievously observed that we now have more universities than basic schools.
Not every institution registered with the council claims the weighty name of 'university'. Most are colleges or institutes. And this is as it should be. The primary mark of distinction of a university is that it maintains a vibrant graduate-research programme. By contrast, a college specialises in undergraduate education. One of the institutions registered by the council is a 'university college,' described on its own website as "[e]ffectively a hybrid of some of the functions of a university and a traditional college".
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/glean...cleisure5.html
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