- Spirit of Excellence for UWI Global Campus SVG Students
Adopting the Guild’s theme of “Maintaining Excellence – Thriving as One” 2023 valedictorian of the University of the West Indies, UWI Global Campus, St. Vincent Breya John has called on students to become beacons.
John who was the featured speaker at the second annual special awards, Honour Roll and Recognition Ceremony on Saturday 18th November, confessed that she teared up many times when the challenges of academic life hit her.
The educator echoed the importance of professionalism, self-awareness, consistency and putting differences aside so students will become better leaders. John also highlighted the need for solid support systems, particularly when anxiety could set in.
President of the Guild of Students, Zilfa Joyette commended her Guild colleagues and UWI staff for being corporative.
Joyette revealed that UWI Global Campus has 42 Sites in 17 territories, but SVG attained the highest number of Honour Role recipients in both semesters 1 and 2.
She also revealed that this achievement was not only for the Global Campus territories, but the overall the campus sites of the University of the West Indies.
Officer-in-Charge Camille Lakhram noted that the UWI marked its 75th anniversary with a series of yearlong activities to promote the milestone achievement.
She reinforced that it has not been easy, but UWI’s diligence has propelled them into “The Times Higher Education World University Rankings” and to the Caribbean’s number one institution, as well as the world’s top one percent.
The Officer-in-Charge commended the awardees and expressed gratitude to the Guild, staff and public at large for their support, as she described students as the university’s most valuable asset.
Minister of Education Curtis King also expressed satisfaction with the excellent performance of Vincentian students. He noted that those who spend time learning about the past are always the best prepared for the future.
He gave tremendous credit to educators and students believing that the successes where as a result of a unified effort.
He praised the Guild and staff at the UWI Global Campus for recognizing the students as about 1,000 tuition scholarships were given last year and over 1,400 hundred in 2023, with a significant number attending the Global Campus.
Appreciation was given to staff at the UWI Global Campus Site Programme Officer in the Student Experience Unit Ronnie Daniel, Assistant Librarian Samantha Williams, Officer-in-Charge Camille Lakhram and retired Head of Site, Deborah Dalrymple.
The 282 Awardees on the Honour Role List for the First and Second Semesters of the 2022/2023 Academic year received certificates, as well as gift cards from Cariway.
