CARIBBEAN: Call for regional collaboration

During a two-day Caribbean conference on higher education policy-makers, educators and experts discussed the situation of higher education in the region. The meeting was a joint initiative between the Surinam government, the Organization of American States and Unesco, reports the Office of the Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis.

The Meeting, which began last Sunday, opened with a call from Suriname President Ronald Venetiaan for greater collaboration among education and research institutes in the Caribbean. He argued that the small scale of Caribbean communities was leading to a lack of financial resources and expertise for education and research in different disciplines, as well as insufficient services being rendered to society by the region's academic institutions.

"The solutions for many of these problems lies in good collaboration, which will put an end to clinging to the orientation towards the objectives and structures of institutions of our former colonisers, as well as the persistent individual orientation of many of our experts towards a possibility of success in institutions outside the Caribbean," the President noted.
Full report on the Office of the Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis site