UCC News & Updates

UCC BDCI ValueEdge - a boost for local small businesses

The UCC  Group's Strategic Business Unit - The Business Development & Consulting Institute (UCC BDCI) is providing a welcome boost for Jamaica's micro, small and medium-size enterprises (MSME) with a new accounting and financial management service "ValueEdge".

UCC group restructures for growth

Seeking the best path to growth, the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean, UCC, has this year formally spun off several business activities into a number of subsidiary companies as part of a strategy it has been developing since last year.

Executive Chairman Winston Adams and his wife, Geraldine Adams, who are 50-50 shareholders in Jamaica-registered UCC, are also the principals of UCC Group Limited, which was registered in St Lucia earlier this year.

UCC among new Common App Members

The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean is a new member of the Common Application 2021/22 programme which  gives students  applying to college in 2021-2022, access to over 30 additional colleges and universities across the United States . The Common App online application system used  by more than three million applicants, teachers, and counselors around the world every year, streamlines the college application process, providing resources and guidance to make college more accessible for students.

In addition to providing a single, online application and 24/7/365 support for all students applying to member colleges and universities, the Common App connects applicants to a mobile app, financial aid and scholarship information, virtual mentors, online portfolios, and a vast library of counselor resources available in English and Spanish.

UCC Global Campus - Exceeding Expectations, Jamaica and Beyond

The mission of the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) Global Campus is to make quality Higher Education a possibility for qualified students globally, regionally and internationally.

The university has developed relationships with a range of strategic partners across the globe that are helping to get the message to prospective students. This, according to Dr. Martin Yousef, Global Campus Director and Director International Recruitment and Enrollment, “is having a very positive impact- exceeding expectations!”

Dr. Yousef noted “it is evident that our wider regional and global outreach is proving very effective and people are taking the time to listen to what we have to say and are finding it pleasing and impressive. We already have applications from the USA, Middle East, West Africa, India and Pakistan.”

UCC Group is on a Roll - Contributing to Development, Locally and Regionally

Substantially increased online registrations, renewed local and international institutional accreditation and the development and growth of several subsidiaries as they build horizontal and vertical synergies,  are among the achievements that give the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) cause for celebration at this time.

Professor Dennis  J. Gayle, President of the UCC and Chair of the UCC Foundation, says the “ The UCC, currently the largest private non affiliated accredited institution of higher learning in Jamaica and of the largest in the Caribbean, is prospering in spite of the Covid-19 pandemic which has negatively impacted educational institutions all over the world.”

“We have approximately 7000 students at all levels and almost 400 staff as well as faculty members.  The University offers professional certificate, diploma, associate degrees and masters degree programmes as well as customized corporate education programmes across 7 physical campuses in Jamaica as well as UCC Online and the new UCC Global Campus which has recently developed formal relationships with many strategic partners, primarily in the US, establishing a foundation upon which to invite international student applications from countries around the world,”