The UWI Launches Pioneering Global Online School

By Shanna Moore The University of the West Indies (UWI) has taken a giant step towards exporting Caribbean knowledge and expertise to the world through expertly designed university curricula. The university has unveiled a groundbreaking initiative, the first-ever global online graduate business school, the International School of Development and Justice (ISDJ, to equip future leaders with the skills and knowledge necessary to advance the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This pioneering initiative, located within The UWI Global Campus, offers a series of one-year online master’s programmes focused on crucial global issues such as poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability, gender equality, educational access, and public health. The project – first presented to financial partners, including the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Invest, as “an entrepreneurial project designed to export Caribbean knowledge to the world” — is designed to mobilise the intellectual achievements of the Caribbean, to package its intellectual and cultural creativity into academic curricula and to export it to the world, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, The UWI’s vice-chancellor, told the hybrid launch event. “We are saying to the world, come in your thousands,” said Sir Hilary, who described the ISDJ as a strategic response to the Caribbean’s historical and future challenges....