The Instructional Development Unit (IDU) invites new and existing members of the academic and senior administrative staff to its orientation workshop. This workshop is designed to acquaint new members of staff with the history, structure and policies of the institution within the context of higher education in the Caribbean. It will also familiarize new members of staff with the programmes, rules, procedures and services of the institution as well as encourage positive staff/student relationships.

The Embassy of Brazil, through the Latin American-Caribbean Centre of UWI, is hosting a two-week summer capoeira workshop from August 8 - 20 at the Students’ Union Gym on the Mona Campus.
Organized for participants in the Youth Training and Empowerment Programme, the capoeira workshop will expose students to capoeira, a creative and defensive form of martial arts that is harmonized into a dance with music. Capoeira has its origins in the need of Brazilian slaves to protect themselves.

The UWI Library was recently awarded a UNESCO grant for its proposal entitled “Information for All Programme.”
The project was among some 24 selected from 502 applications to the UNESCO Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council for the Information For All Programme. The grant will be used to stage a four-day workshop on preservation and digitization of cultural heritage for librarians, archivists and media personnel in the Eastern Caribbean and Belize.

As part of its contribution to equip social workers, police personnel and all who work with children affected by violence and abuse, the UWI through its Department of Sociology and Social Work, and in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, will be hosting a workshop on Forensic Interviewing of Children. This will be held on Thursday, August 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. in the Department of Management Studies on the Mona Campus.