Honorable Andrew Holness, Minister of Education will be the guest speaker at the 9th annual conference of the Association of Caribbean Higher Education Administrators (ACHEA) scheduled for July 8-10 at the Sunset Jamaica Grande, Ocho Rios. This year’s Conference is themed, “Reforming Higher Education:  Implications for Caribbean Administrators.” The Conference will also feature several noteworthy speakers including: Dr. Jose Renato Carvalho, Director, UNESCO-IESALC, Venezuela, Professor Alvin Wint, Pro-Vice Chancellor, Undergraduate Studies, UWI, Professor Lawrence Carrington, Vice Chancellor, University of Guyana, Dr. Daniel Coore, Head, Department of Computing, UWI, Mona and Dr. Kofi Nkrumah Young, ACHEA Conference Chair and Vice President, Planning and Operations, University of Technology, Jamaica.

Over the three days several topics will be addressed at the Conference such as: the Role of Government in Higher Education, the Role of Private Sector in Higher Education, The Role of Accreditation in a Changed Higher Education Context, Bridging the Techno-Cultural Gap between Administrators and Students and Reforming Higher Education Financing.

The Conference is aptly themed as the region’s tertiary institutions struggle with issues concerning the inappropriateness and dysfunctionality that exists in the current tertiary educational system, most of which was inherited from the colonial era. While the European countries have reviewed and revamped their tertiary education systems several times since 1962, in comparison limited changes have occurred within the Caribbean region. The event is therefore aimed at providing continuous development of management capacity among administrators and management individuals in higher education institutions in the Caribbean and seeks to bridge gaps that exist between regional higher education institutions and those of international counterparts.

For more information visit the website at http://sta.uwi.edu/achea  or telephone 702 3402.