UCC News & Updates

UCC Awards Degrees for 2020/2021 – President Dennis Gayle salutes graduates

The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) has awarded 973 students who have earned degrees in various disciplines at a 2020/2021 virtual commencement ceremony on Sunday, July 18, 2021.

Four hundred students from 2020 and 573 from 2021 have successfully completed their programme of studies at the College of Graduate Studies & Research, the School of Business Management, the School of Technology & Mathematics or the School of Humanities & Law.  They received Bachelors or Masters degrees from the UCC.

It's Dr. Marlene Street Forrest and Dr. Gordon "Butch" Stewart

Dr Winston Adams, founder and group executive chairman, UCC Group, presents Dr Marlene Street Forrest, recipient of the UCC honorary doctoral degree in public policy, with her citation.

“College for Jamaica/Jamaica Competes” Initiative - UCC Global Corporate University to partner with businesses

Adult learners, business owners and employees, many without a degree or college credits, will have an opportunity for upskilling as a result of a partnership between UCC Global Corporate University and corporate Jamaica.

UCC Global Corporate University, a division of the UCC Group is developing partnerships with corporate Jamaica under its “College for Jamaica/Jamaica Competes” initiative.  Under the programme, adults without the traditional minimum number of five passes in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) or any college credits will now be able to secure admission to pursue a US accredited competency-based degree through UCC Global.

UCC to confer Marlene Street Forrest and Gordon “Butch” Stewart with Honorary Doctorate Degrees

The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) will confer the Honorary Doctoral Degree in Public Policy on Mrs. Marlene Street Forrest, CD, JP, Managing Director of the Jamaica Stock Exchange (JSE) and the Honorary Doctoral Degree in Business Administration posthumously, on the late Hon. Gordon “Butch” Stewart, OJ, former Chairman of Sandals Resorts, Beaches Resorts International, the ATL Group and its subsidiaries, Appliance Traders and the Jamaica Observer newspaper.

UCC GLOBAL KNOWLEDGE PROCESS SOLUTIONS- enabling technology driven solutions that create economic value

Business Process Outsourcing operations are evolving across Jamaica rapidly and certainly, the UCC subsidiary Global Knowledge Process Solutions Ltd (GKPS) has moved to differentiate and innovate, enabling the creation of technology driven solutions that will create more economic value for the company and its team members.