b'Improving the Quality of Teaching, Learning and Student Development(contd)Literatures in English Major, completed a semesterinternship in Hong Kong following which he was offeredinstrumental in drafting project designs and projectefficiency, and in equality of opportunity if education at Trent University for Semester 1 of the 2019-2020employment in the same office. This is the second yearproposals identifying critical needs of students at theistocontinueservingasimportantinstruments AcademicYearaspartofanexchangeprogrammean FST intern has been granted this opportunity.Woodford Primary School. This facilitated partnershipforadvancingthenationaleconomy.Despitethe offered under the Emerging Leaders in the AmericaswiththeJamaicaNationalBank,whichprovidedchallenges of financing the dream, multiple strategies Program (ELAP). Mr. Aleem Mahabir, from the Department of Geographyfundingfortabletsneededbystudentsingradesarestillinplacethroughstateandcivilsociety and Geology, was selected for the prestigious Clinton5and6.RepresentativesoftheSocialWorkUnitfundingintheirbidtoaddresstheproblemsthat From the Faculty of Science and Technology, a groupGlobal Initiative University Fellowship to pursue workaccepted devices on behalf of the community. many students face. of26studentsfromTheUniversityoftheWestonasocialinitiativetoprovidecareerandskills Indies (including from the Mona Campus) completedtraining to young adults in underserved communitiesGraduate Scholarships the China component of a 2+2 Bachelors degree inin Port of Spain. Physics graduate students Mr. DudleyFinancing the Dream TheSchoolforGraduateStudiesandResearch Software Engineering with a concentration in mobileWilliams and Ms. Santana Lewis won internships withawarded fifty-two (52) students pursuing MPhil and applicationtechnologies.ThegroupspentthepasttheAntiguanDepartmentofEnergy.Mr.MatthewAddressingtheongoingchallengesfacedinPhDdegreesscholarships.Thescholarshipswere two years studying at the Global Institute of SoftwareWilliams(Physicsundergraduate)participatedinFinancingTertiaryEducationintheAnglophonedistributed amongst 38 MPhil and 14 PhD students48 Technology (GIST) in Suzhou, China. They representtheCaribbeanCatastropheRiskInsuranceFacilityCaribbeanAlvinWint,formerProVice-Chancellor49theinauguralclassofTheUWI-ChinaInstituteof(CCRIF) internship programme and was placed at theBoardofUndergraduateStudiesatTheUWI,Donations Information Technology (UWI-CIIT).Meteorological Service in Trinidad and Tobago for twounderscored the critical role that tertiary education months. Ms. Mellisa Walker (Physics undergraduate)plays in national development and in nation building$2.5m in Donations to The UWI Mona Student Internships: Facilitatingparticipated in the Sophia Short Study Programme(CaribbeanJournalofEducation,Vol28,No2,The Most Hon. Prime Minister Andrew Holness, Leader Industry Partnerships held at Sophia University, Japan in January 2020.2006).Itisanacceptedfactthateducationisanof the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and Chairman of Althoughstudentexchangeprogrammessufferedaeconomically and socially productive investment andtheJamaicaLabourPartyEducationFund,visited downturn in activity during this annual reporting yearThe third cohort of the NCB-UWI Agile Lab/Internshipone way of ensuring uptake in the system is throughThe University of the West Indies, Mona Campus on 2019 to 2020, the Faculty of Science and TechnologyProgramme was implemented over the period Februaryheavy subsidies of tertiary level institutions. BudgetThursday, November 21, 2019 to present the institution (FST)continuedtoexpandthenumberofannual10 to July 16, 2020, in collaboration with Mona Schoolausteritieshoweverplaceadditionalburdensonwith a contribution from the JLP Education Fund and internshipsopportunitiesavailabletostudentsof Business and Management and the Departmentalready debt-ridden nations in their attempt to createthePrimeMinistersPositiveJamaicaFoundation. throughpartnershipswithlocalandinternationalof Computing, UWI. Through this programme, fifteensustainablefinancialincentives.AlthoughfundingThe collective value of this donation was JMD$2.5m. agencies. In 2019/2020 these included the Nationalfinal year Computer Science students underwent asources are drawn from both the public and privateThe donation is a Grant to The UWI and will assist CommercialBank(Jamaica),IBM(USA),Goldmancustomized 16-week experiential Internship programsector, in the Caribbean, private sector funding reliesstudents who have been means tested or who have Sachs (Hong Kong), and Huawei (China). The followingto fill targeted roles as software developers, customerheavilyonthefamilyandhousehold,whichlimitsotherwise been established as needing support with arenoteworthyinthisregard:Mr.ZidaneWright,experience and design experts, data scientists andthose who can finance themselves through educationfood,transport,booksandothernecessaryliving Department of Computing, was selected for the IBMquality assurance analysts at the National Commercialto the more privileged groups. To effect sustainableexpenses. The conditions of the Grant dictate that no Research - UWI Scholars Programme and Mr. NathanBank (NCB). and efficient tertiary-financing systems, the goal ofone student receives more than $150k; and that the Downer and Mr. Nathaniel Christie were selected tosocial justice must remain prominent so that we canfocus is placed on students at risk of de-registration.visit China for two weeks on the Huawei Seeds for theAttheFacultyofSocialSciences,theSocialremovethedisincentivesfacedbystudentsfromThe Prime Minister urged that the Grant should assist Future Programme in September 2019.Mr. DownerWorkpracticumstudentswithintheDepartmentlow-incomebackgrounds.Itisimperativethatthestudentswithtuition,providedthattheassistance wassubsequentlyselectedfortheGoldmanSachsofSociology,PsychologyandSocialWorkwereeducational systems in Jamaica improve in quality, inamounts to 60% of their fees. Students will also be ANNUAL REPORT 2019/20 Realigning our Resources with Resilience and Resourcefulness'