The School of Education at the UWI Mona Campus will present a forum entitled Developing a Literate Population: the Challenge for the 21st Century on Tuesday, May 3 at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts, beginning at 5.00 p.m. This will be the thirteenth in the series of forums that examine critical issues in education. The forum will be addressed by speakers who are specialist in the area and include persons from the primary and secondary school system, teachers colleges, the University of Technology and the UWI itself.

The School of Graduate Studies and Research will be offering a Master of Science Degree in National Security and Strategic Studies at the UWI Mona Campus beginning in September 2005. The objectives of the programme are to educate and prepare scholars in strategy and national security for positions of senior levels in the government and security forces in the region, and for positions in regional universities and colleges, and research institutions.

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The Vice Chancellor’s Award for Excellence for the 2004/2005 academic year will go to five members of the academic staff based at the Mona and St. Augustine campuses of the University of the West Indies. at Mona, the awardees are Professor Michael Branday of the Department of Surgery, Radiology, Anaesthesia and Intensive Care in the Faculty of Medical Sciences, for teaching; Professor Rainford Wilks, of the Tropical Medicine Research Institute for research accomplishments and Professor Edwin Jones of the Department of Government, Faculty of Social Sciences, for public service.