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The University of the West Indies has broken into the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for the first time.
The 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings has ranked The UWI among the world’s top institutions.
According to a statement from The UWI, the rankings show that The UWI is located among the 1,258 top universities in world for 2019.
This puts The UWI in the elite band of the top 5 per cent of universities worldwide based on data showing that there are over 25,000 recognised universities, globally. Specifically, Times Higher Education ranked The UWI at 591 out of the 1,258 universities which made the list. The UWI is the only Caribbean institution on the world-wide list. It was also the only Caribbean university ranked earlier this year in THE’s 2018 Latin America University Rankings, in the region that is home to over 100 universities contributing to sustainable development.
In 2015, when Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles took over the reins, he declared an intention to radically globalise the University and to prepare it for regional and global comparisons within the THE’s rankings. This required the considerable mobilising of the evidence relevant to its academic legacy and current strategic agenda as a strategic project. Vice-Chancellor Beckles, in establishing an Office for Global Affairs, and giving a remit to the redesigned Office of Strategic Planning, recognised the need for The UWI to be competitive internationally within a global sector. The Vice-Chancellor’s vision to have The UWI recognised within the top 5% of the best universities in the world has now been realised.
Elated about the news, Vice-Chancellor Beckles said, “The excellence of The UWI has been a well-kept secret for far too long. Now, with these very impressive global ranking results, we can begin to share with the world the story of this academic enterprise in the West Indies that highlights the intellectual achievement and scholastic contributions of the Caribbean community.”
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Regarded as the definitive list of the top universities, THE’s World University Rankings is the only global university performance table to judge research-intensive universities across their core missions of teaching (the learning environment); research (volume, income and reputation), international outlook (staff, students and research); citations (research influence); industry income (knowledge transfer). The 70-year-old regional university, which is relatively young among its counterparts in the World Rankings, scored in the top 10% of universities (#290) for its international outlook and in the top 30% (#370) for research influence.
The UWI’s exceptional performance in the 2018 Latin America University Rankings and now the 2019 World University Rankings demonstrates a series of deliberate strategic initiatives advanced by the implementation of the University’s five-year strategic plan for 2017-2022. Themed the Triple A Strategy, the plan is centred around widening Access to quality tertiary education, greater Alignment of The UWI with academic-industry partnerships relevant to the region's needs and Agility and alertness in engaging global connections and possibilities.
EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:I have been saying it for years right here on tuner and most refused to believe it.
UWI Engineering Degrees are triple accredited world wide by USA, Canada and Europe.
The UWI Engineering and Science degrees the exam papers are just like those in MIT and Oxford, you have to be just as bright to graduate from either schools. Even the Computer Science BSc in UWI is one of the best degrees on the planet, you can't go anywhere else and get much better really. If you compare the exam papers you will see for yourself the evidence is there
neilsingh100 wrote:Specifically, Times Higher Education ranked The UWI at 591 out of the 1,258 universities which made the list.
They looked at all campuses. UWI's regional headquarters is in Jamaica that is why that country is listed.silent_riot wrote:Firstly, this is for the Mona Campus, not St. Augustine.
EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:I have been saying it for years right here on tuner and most refused to believe it.
UWI Engineering Degrees are triple accredited world wide by USA, Canada and Europe.
The UWI Engineering and Science degrees the exam papers are just like those in MIT and Oxford, you have to be just as bright to graduate from either schools. Even the Computer Science BSc in UWI is one of the best degrees on the planet, you can't go anywhere else and get much better really. If you compare the exam papers you will see for yourself the evidence is there
silent_riot wrote:Firstly, this is for the Mona Campus, not St. Augustine.
Secondly, UWI placed 591 out of 1258 and not within the top 5% of the ranking.
One cannot conveniently choose to say they are within the top 5% within the world when the study did not evaluate all the universities in the world. It assumes that all other universities excluded from the study are automatically worse than the 1258th placed university.
EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:I have been saying it for years right here on tuner and most refused to believe it.
UWI Engineering Degrees are triple accredited world wide by USA, Canada and Europe.
The UWI Engineering and Science degrees the exam papers are just like those in MIT and Oxford, you have to be just as bright to graduate from either schools. Even the Computer Science BSc in UWI is one of the best degrees on the planet, you can't go anywhere else and get much better really. If you compare the exam papers you will see for yourself the evidence is there
carluva wrote:EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:I have been saying it for years right here on tuner and most refused to believe it.
UWI Engineering Degrees are triple accredited world wide by USA, Canada and Europe.
The UWI Engineering and Science degrees the exam papers are just like those in MIT and Oxford, you have to be just as bright to graduate from either schools. Even the Computer Science BSc in UWI is one of the best degrees on the planet, you can't go anywhere else and get much better really. If you compare the exam papers you will see for yourself the evidence is there
Not at all true.
Many of UWIs engineering degrees at the BSc level do not meet the requirements for CEng as set out in UK SPEC. In fact, for many of them, a post graduate degree is required to meet the educational requirements for CEng as set out in UK SPEC.
The last time a UWI undergraduate electrical engineering degree was accredited was as far back as 1998 afaik. After that, accreditation from the then IEE (now IET) was lost for some time.
There is also no such thing as accreditation by a country such as USA, Canada and Europe. Professional bodies such as IET, IMechE, IChemE, IEEE etc are responsible for the accreditation of the programme for their respective professional engineering regulatory body in the respective country. UWI degrees align to the UK to meet the requirements for CEng as set out in UK SPEC.
Gladiator wrote:carluva wrote:EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:I have been saying it for years right here on tuner and most refused to believe it.
UWI Engineering Degrees are triple accredited world wide by USA, Canada and Europe.
The UWI Engineering and Science degrees the exam papers are just like those in MIT and Oxford, you have to be just as bright to graduate from either schools. Even the Computer Science BSc in UWI is one of the best degrees on the planet, you can't go anywhere else and get much better really. If you compare the exam papers you will see for yourself the evidence is there
Not at all true.
Many of UWIs engineering degrees at the BSc level do not meet the requirements for CEng as set out in UK SPEC. In fact, for many of them, a post graduate degree is required to meet the educational requirements for CEng as set out in UK SPEC.
The last time a UWI undergraduate electrical engineering degree was accredited was as far back as 1998 afaik. After that, accreditation from the then IEE (now IET) was lost for some time.
There is also no such thing as accreditation by a country such as USA, Canada and Europe. Professional bodies such as IET, IMechE, IChemE, IEEE etc are responsible for the accreditation of the programme for their respective professional engineering regulatory body in the respective country. UWI degrees align to the UK to meet the requirements for CEng as set out in UK SPEC.
Most of what you just said there is wrong buddy....Only Civil Eng currently has no accreditation. Everything else in Engineering is internationally accredited IEEE, IChemE, IMechE.
sMASH wrote:padnah did his phd there, and went to a german uni to colab on a paper. when he saw what those students was doing, he felt ashamed of how unprepared he was.
while they learning how to investigate, invent and innovate, in uwi all they know to do is kiss the lecturers' ass.
Daran wrote:sMASH wrote:padnah did his phd there, and went to a german uni to colab on a paper. when he saw what those students was doing, he felt ashamed of how unprepared he was.
while they learning how to investigate, invent and innovate, in uwi all they know to do is kiss the lecturers' ass.
So true, it was the same for me. When I saw what undergraduates in Europe and the UK were capable of, I realized how badly off UWI was.
UWI barely holds on to their accreditation for engineering.
Their syllabus are extremely outdated. They dumb down anything complex. And then students just rely on drafts to get through.
Don't even get me started on comp sci, 1 year in a top university covers more than 3 years of UWI's comp sci.
Gladiator wrote:carluva wrote:EFFECTIC DESIGNS wrote:I have been saying it for years right here on tuner and most refused to believe it.
UWI Engineering Degrees are triple accredited world wide by USA, Canada and Europe.
The UWI Engineering and Science degrees the exam papers are just like those in MIT and Oxford, you have to be just as bright to graduate from either schools. Even the Computer Science BSc in UWI is one of the best degrees on the planet, you can't go anywhere else and get much better really. If you compare the exam papers you will see for yourself the evidence is there
Not at all true.
Many of UWIs engineering degrees at the BSc level do not meet the requirements for CEng as set out in UK SPEC. In fact, for many of them, a post graduate degree is required to meet the educational requirements for CEng as set out in UK SPEC.
The last time a UWI undergraduate electrical engineering degree was accredited was as far back as 1998 afaik. After that, accreditation from the then IEE (now IET) was lost for some time.
There is also no such thing as accreditation by a country such as USA, Canada and Europe. Professional bodies such as IET, IMechE, IChemE, IEEE etc are responsible for the accreditation of the programme for their respective professional engineering regulatory body in the respective country. UWI degrees align to the UK to meet the requirements for CEng as set out in UK SPEC.
Most of what you just said there is wrong buddy....Only Civil Eng currently has no accreditation. Everything else in Engineering is internationally accredited IEEE, IChemE, IMechE.
They still stuck teaching first principles while the rest of the world teaching how to use software to create solutions...Daran wrote:sMASH wrote:padnah did his phd there, and went to a german uni to colab on a paper. when he saw what those students was doing, he felt ashamed of how unprepared he was.
while they learning how to investigate, invent and innovate, in uwi all they know to do is kiss the lecturers' ass.
So true, it was the same for me. When I saw what undergraduates in Europe and the UK were capable of, I realized how badly off UWI was.
UWI barely holds on to their accreditation for engineering.
Their syllabus are extremely outdated. They dumb down anything complex. And then students just rely on drafts to get through.
Don't even get me started on comp sci, 1 year in a top university covers more than 3 years of UWI's comp sci.
Numb3r4 wrote:Some times from my experience, the people who complain about UWI the most are/were the students who were struggling or had poor study habits and wanted the freedom but a high school study environment.
With respect to the article I thought at one point it was at most the upper 20% (I stand corrected) not certain if that is it now.
With regards to innovation and invention true we are behind but I wouldn't blame the university for that though, that could very well be cultural, in the sense that we are a risk averse people. Yes the University can put in place a safe environment for this but still you are fighting a mentality.
Remember the price of failure is higher here than in other countries an societies.
Innovation and invention and real technological development tends to happen in areas where you have a good safety net and so you are safe in your decision to take risks and try different things.
With respect to the 591 is that out of the 1258 Universities or out of the 25,000. The article makes mention of 25,000 accredited Universities or which 1258 are top universities and that UWI is 591 of that.
So out of the 1258 then UWI resides somewhere around the 50% range.
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