In a random computer draw five winners of cash prizes, with a total value of $US3000, were chosen from among the 600 participants of the February 2009 Tracer Study of First Degree Graduates, Class of 2007, of the UWI, Mona.

Intended as an annual event, the  Study seeks to determine, among other things, where Mona’s graduates are placed  a year after graduation, how much they earn, if their university education is relevant to their jobs, and whether or not they intend to pursue postgraduate training at UWI or elsewhere.   The findings of the survey are crucial in helping to shape Mona’s curriculum to ensure relevance and marketability. 

At a ceremony to award the four cash prizes of U$500 to a graduate from each of the Faculties and the US$1000 grand prize to the overall winner, Pro Vice Chancellor and Principal, Professor Gordon Shirley, thanked the graduates for taking the time to participate in a survey that would serve as one of the benchmarks for assessing the Campus’s achievements against the 2007-12 Strategic Plan.  In particular, graduates’ responses would help to ensure that three of the key pillars of the Plan, Teaching and Learning, Graduate Studies and Research and Innovation are strengthened for the benefit of current and future undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The Mona Campus thanks wholeheartedly all graduates who participated in the 2009 Tracer Study and congratulates the lucky winners:   Ms. Shameka Burnett (Humanities and Education), Dr. Clayon Kelly (Medical Sciences), Mrs. Carol Robinson (Pure and Applied Sciences) Ms. Sandra Smith (Social Sciences), and the grand prize winner, Ms. Jodi-Ann Sang who is also another Social Sciences graduate.

The results of the Tracer Study may be accessed via the website of the Office of Planning & Institutional Research at http://www.mona.uwi.edu/opair/research/tracersurvey.pdf