Need to re-evaluate the delivery of education

Thursday, November 20, 2003

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis: Resident Tutor of the University of the West Indies, St. Kitts/Nevis Campus, Mrs. Olivia Edgecomb-Howell said on Monday that there was need for re-evaluation in the delivery of education. 

"In this information age in which we are living today, there is a need for all of us in the business of delivering education, to re-evaluate how we are developing and how we are managing the delivery of this education," she said.

"I am sure that we have all agreed, that ultimately, the essential objectives of education in general, and of higher education in particular, is to develop the human capacity to think, to reason and to analyze data," said Mrs. Howell. "Universities then must play two basic roles. They are involved in teaching learning and they are involved in research."

The Resident Tutor pointed out, "it is the interaction of these two essential fundamental functions that determine the quality of the institutions that serve us in higher education, and more than that to some extent, it is that quality that influences the selections that we make and impact the demands we make on higher education as a whole."  

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