Research Catalog

Title

Higher education in the Caribbean : past, present and future directions / edited by Glenford D. Howe.

Publication

Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Howe, Glenford D.

Description

xx, 372 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subjects

• University of the West Indies
• Education, Higher > Caribbean, English-speaking
• Universities and colleges > Caribbean, English-speaking > Administration

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The historical development of higher education in the anglophone Caribbean / Alan G. Cobley -- Contrasting problems facing universities in the developed and developing worlds : the same difference / Rex Nettleford -- Higher education and Caribbean identity / Orville Kean -- Academic travails and a crisis-of-mission of the University of the West Indies' social sciences : from history and critique to anti-politics / Don D. Marshall -- The politics of Caribbean higher education / Bevis F. Peters -- Access to tertiary education in the Commonwealth Caribbean in the 1990s / Errol Miller -- Higher education and agricultural development in the Caribbean / Carlisle A. Pemberton, Sarojini Ragbir and Rita Pemberton -- A vision of transformational leadership for the University of the West Indies / Glenford D. Howe and Earle Newton -- Managing the academy : aspects of the law relating to University administration / Jeff Cumberbatch -- Changing a university : reconciling quantity with quality : the case of the University of the West Indies / Don Robotham -- Future directions for research in Caribbean higher education institutions / Roger Prichard -- The University of the West Indies press and academic and textbook publishing in the Caribbean : an oral history / Wenty Bowen -- From ideas to practice : the development of the University of the West Indies distance education policies and programmes / Glenford D. Howe -- Current issues in distance education in the English-speaking Caribbean : challenges and responses / Claudia Harvey -- Management information systems in universities : is the University of the West Indies on target / Gloria Barrett-Sobers.

ISBN

9766400792

LCCN

2001423921

OCLC

• ocm44624742
• SCSB-4820596

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries