UCC News & Updates

UCC Urged to Continue Impacting the World

One of the region's distinguished educators has urged the University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) to continue embracing its role of addressing the challenges faced by Jamaica and the wider region.

Dr David Hall, president of the University of the Virgin Islands, issued the charge last Tuesday as Dr Haldane Davies was installed as UCC's third president at the institution's campus in New Kingston.

Drawing on the installation ceremony's theme — 'Igniting, discovering and impacting our world' — Dr Hall said it embodies a spiritual formula that is fundamental to the existence and progress of life.

"Everything we know, appreciate, and benefit from started with a spark of creativity, which led to some important discovery, which eventually impacted our lives," he said. "There can be no fire without a spark, there would be no Internet, renewable energy, or cures for diseases without a spark and a discovery."

The same, he said, is true for human beings.

UCC to Implement Public Manager Programme

Dr. Haldane Davies officially goes into the president's chair at University of the Commonwealth Caribbean (UCC) today, eager to implement a number of projects that, he expects, will not only expand the institution but increase its reputation and influence here and across the region.

Among them is a programme designed to develop high-quality public managers, something with which he is very familiar, having chaired the National Certified Public Manager Consortium in the United States.

"It's a programme that is across the United States; it's sort of similar to the UK civil service college, where we prepare public officers for further roles to serve as permanent secretaries, directors, department heads... about the running of government," Dr Davies told the Jamaica Observer in a recent interview.

UCC, SportsMax Partnership Affords Athletes Access to Higher Education

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.

UCC Celebrates Women's History Month 2023

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."