Several papers have examined educational research in the Caribbean from different perspectives, but all acknowledge the seminal role played by the University of the West Indies Faculty of Education. Miller (1984:8-9), for example, has pointed out that even in its formative years, the Faculty set about establishing a centre for the study of education, whose function was to be: 
to conduct research into local problems, collect data related to the school systems, act as a clearing house for the dissemination of educational information, and offer consultation to the various governments.