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The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated sharply the increasing interaction between scientific and technological know-how/capability and international relations. The pandemic forced the closure of schools across the Caribbean, including tertiary institutions. Many colleges and universities turned to technological tools and altered their pedagogy to enable continuity of teaching and learning. One such institution was The University of the West Indies (UWI) which faced many challenges and introduced adaptations to address this issue. As UWI continues to manoeuvre in the pandemic, it remains important to understand the impact of the pandemic on the University and the efficacy of actions taken to tackle the pandemic. This chapter will also highlight some of the issues that universities should address as they re-envision post-COVID-19 education. The pandemic provides a rare opportunity to reshape tertiary education so that the framework readily facilitates assessing different teaching and learning styles/formats, inclusive curricula, and the online challenges. This study was done by looking at the measures put in place at the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus.
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University of the West Indies, UWI COVID-19 Management Plan, 8 March 2020, 11–13. https://www.open.uwi.edu/sites/default/files/UWI%20COVID-19%20Management%20Plan.pdf.
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UNESCO. Covid-19 Impact on Education. Available online: https://en.unesco.org/covid19/educationresponse (accessed on 28 July 2020).
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Information based on Prospective Student Survey conducted during the period July to August 2020 by the Campus Office of Planning and Institutional Research, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus. Information was also sourced from the Administrative Staff Check-in Survey done by the Marketing & Communications Unit during the same timeframe.
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Cockburn, B.N., Chami, G. (2022). Responding to the COVID-19: Technology and Tertiary Education. In: Chami, G., Teelucksingh, J., Anatol, M. (eds) Managing New Security Threats in the Caribbean. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98733-6_6
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