Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said on Thursday south Trinidad would see immense benefits from the South Campus of the University of the West Indies in Debe, noting that the rural community would be transformed into a “university town” and generate employment.
She made the statement in a speech at a function to dedicate more than 100 hectares of land next to the debe High school for the UWI campus.
Persad-Bissessar said for too long activities and services have been centralised in and around Port-of-Spain while hundreds of thousands of citizens who “live outside feel marginalised, disadvantaged and neglected.”
She added, “For too long our children have spent countless hours on the road trying to get into the university and jobs in Port-of-Spain.”
The south campus will include the Faculty of Law. The Principal of the UWI St Augustine campus, Prof. Clement Sankat expects to see about 450 students at the new campus by August 2013.
He said the student enrolment had grown at St Augustine from approximately 7,000 students in 2000 to nearly 17,000 in this academic year, representing 140 per cent growth in the last decade.
Noting the need for expansion, Sankat said the present campus was only able to offer places to 70 per cent of its highly qualified applicants in 2010/11.
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