UCC News & Updates
The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean has launched an alternative dispute resolution programme in a bid to help Jamaican communities build and create a more peaceful and just society. Launched on Tuesday March 21, 2023, at the university’s Worthington Ave. Campus, the Quelling Disputes Igniting Solutions (QDIS) Programme is designed to provide effective solutions to the problem of unmanaged conflicts in Jamaica.
A Contra-Partnership Agreement signed by the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) and SportsMax Limited (SMAX), the Caribbean leading Sports Content, distributor, broadcaster and production house will see the latter’s staff and young athletes through its content partnerships, benefiting from programmes and scholarships through the UCC.
Signed on March 15, 2023, by UCC President Dr Haldane Davies and Nicolas Matthews, CEO of SMAX, the Agreement will result in the UCC delivering a range of certificate, undergraduate, graduate and post graduate degrees to eligible SMAX nominees in exchange for advertising opportunities on SMAX which provides advertisement, production and broadcast services and cable facilities across the Caribbean and in the Diaspora.
The University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) has hosted a series of activities and will roll out several features acknowledging women in the community as part of their International Women's Day 2023 and Women's History Month (WHM) celebrations.
IWD2023 Message
Professor Bernadette Warner, Executive Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness and Institutional Research at UCC delivered the official message for International Women' Day. In her presentation Professor Warner first acknowledged women around the world who have taken a "bold stand despite the often overwhelming odds against them" such as Anielle Franco, Minister for Racial Equality in Brazil’s new government, who was "catalyzed to act by the murder of her sister" and Iranian Journalist Masih Alinejad, who "fled to the USA in 2009, after exposing corruption in her home country, and who remains actively defiant."
The UCC Academy was recently awarded a Twenty Million (JMD$20,000,000.00) Dollar Innovation Grant from the Development Bank of Jamaica to develop programs and systems all aimed at boosting UCC's capacity to deliver educational and training services to a hybrid student body.
One of the more exciting compenents of the UCCA project is the development of an Adaptive Learning Platform in the form of an AI powered mobile application and web portal that will deliver customized resources and learning activities to address the unique needs of each learner.