The American University of Barbados, whose official opening is set for today, can pose serious challenges to the University of the West Indies (UWI) medical school at Cave Hill when it comes to foreign students. <\/p>\n
That warning, of sorts, came from Professor Nigel Harris, University of the West Indies Vice Chancellor, who admitted that Barbados\u2019 recent decision to give the green light to an offshore medical school in the country caught him by surprise. <\/p>\n
He told the DAILY NATION in New York that when the privately funded medical school, the first of its kind in Barbados but one of several in the Eastern Caribbean, gets going it could present Cave Hill with competition for foreign students. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat surprised me, frankly,\u201d Harris said of the Freundel Stuart administration\u2019s decision to grant an operating licence to the American University. \u201cThe model for the faculty of medicine [at Cave Hill] is one that anticipated getting international students who would be paying full bore for their education. Now to have an international one, an offshore school, there would be a challenge. It does challenge the university\u2019s school at Cave Hill.\u201d <\/p>\n
Read the full story in today's WEEKEND NATION. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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