Since its formation 1987, the University Council of Jamaica (UCJ) has not itself undertaken an institutional review of its processes and performance. With its mandate to accredit programmes and, more recently, institutions, the UCJ is expected to come under tighter scrutiny to ensure that its processes not only address the country’s education agenda but that the UCJ maintains its mandate and can be benchmarked against international standards of good practice. This paper reports on a brief survey undertaken among the staff and directors of the UCJ as well as institutions served by the UCJ.

In "And Caret Bay Again", veteran Caribbean poet Velma Pollard treats us to an exciting mixture of the old and the new—many old favourites from previous collections (“Crown Point”, “Shame Trees Don't Grow Here”, “The Best Philosophers I Know Can't Read or Write”, “Leaving Traces”) and 18 new poems. (The volume is divided according to these different collections of works). This new collection (re-collection) is tied together by an exciting feature taken from the world of Art—the diptych—that is signalled in the title of the book.