Later this year, the UWI will be preparing for the departure of its first set of students for Suzhou, China as part of the BSc. Software Engineering programme.
Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal of the UWI Cave Hill Campus, Professor V. Eudine Barriteau acknowledged the above, indicating that it is all part of the University’s thrust to embrace new programmes and to enable students to benefit from expertise that can propel them to be leaders in the field of technology, when they return to the Caribbean.
“We have been quietly engaging on many frontiers the interplay with the new technology. We do have this software engineering programme and we have a cohort of students who will be going to China this summer, to pursue the last two years of the BSc in Software Engineering,” Barriteau revealed recently, during a break from the University Council’s annual business meeting held at the Cave Hill Campus.
Vice Chancellor, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles has meanwhile been pioneering a strategy to establish a UWI Centre in China, that will produce a generation of software engineers for the Caribbean, in order to lay the foundation for the much needed digital revolution in the region.
Strategic partner, the Global Institute of Software Technology (GIST) based in Suzhou, China will receive the students, for completion of their third and fourth years of the joint BSc programme. (RSM)