Government Touts Record Scholarship Numbers and UWI Five Islands Enrollment
The government’s commitment to expanding access to tertiary education has been noted in the budget debate, with Leader of Government Business in the Senate, Shenella Govia, reporting record-breaking achievements in scholarships and university enrollment.
Senator Govia revealed that 1,752 students are currently benefiting from the Prime Minister’s Scholarship program, which has become a cornerstone of the administration’s push to make higher education more accessible.
She also pointed out the success of the University of the West Indies (UWI) Five Islands campus, where 1,000 students are enrolled under the scholarship initiative.
“Once you apply to UWI Five Islands, tuition is completely free under the Prime Minister’s Scholarship program,” Govia explained, describing the initiative as a transformative tool for national development.
The senator also underscored the government’s strategic focus on priority areas for scholarship funding, including education, tourism, hospitality management, and STEM fields.
“The Ministry of Education provides a list of priority areas, ensuring that scholarship recipients align with the country’s developmental needs,” she stated.
In addition to local opportunities, Govia highlighted the government’s efforts to provide international scholarships, noting that students are pursuing advanced degrees in tourism and hospitality management in China and other institutions globally.
The administration’s investment in education, she argued, is a critical step toward building a skilled and competitive workforce.
Govia contrasted these efforts with the previous administration’s policies, asserting that the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) has delivered tangible results in empowering youth through education.
Govia said with plans to further enhance educational opportunities, including the development of early childhood education centers and expanded technical training, the government is positioning itself as a champion of upward mobility and national progress through education.
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Oh, just hush, Miss 3,4,5 jobs.
Dum scum. Who is enrolling at Five Islands? The students who are not ready for university and should be at the State College?
The older ones who get free entry because of their party? People like you who support mediocrity by encouraging entrants to go there to get a degree in a course that is of no use to national development?
Students whose English is so poor they have problems reading the course textbooks and understanding the lecturers?
Secondary school students who still have to kash up in crowded classrooms because the new brand school that they got was stolen from them? The primary school children who don’t know what would happen to them when they steal their school too?
The sub standard university of the West Indies branch that really belongs to Antigua and Barbuda because we are paying for everything there? This same university that took most of the education budget and left none for preschool, primary and secondary development?
This same university that the leader is walking about the world and boasting about? And have everybody laughing at him and us?
Life for you is good…now. You did stuff for other people and you have been rewarded. Enjoy it while you can, but don’t, just don’t come in the public domain spewing your arse-ishness.
Great news! Let’s hope, that there’ll be jobs within the economy besides taxi drivers, tour guides, bellhops, waiters, servants etc. Because with a stacked private sector and a discriminatory Public Sector plus lack of opportunities within the CARICOM REGION for such graduates 🎓 with Advanced Degrees, there will be some H_Angry People camping out and lining up just to drop off resumes.