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OFFICE OF THE BOARD FOR NON-CAMPUS COUNTRIES AND DISTANCE EDUCATION

The BNCCDE is dead. Long Live the Open Campus! This set of pages is now (February 2008) no longer being updated. Material that is not merely of archival significance will be mirrored on the Open Campus site as that evolves.

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Click here to access material for the inaugural Council meeting of the Open Campus, including unconfirmed Minutes..

While waiting for their long-term home, we are also posting here the Newsletters from the Open Campus:

Welcome to the Office of the Board for Non-Campus Countries and Distance Education. We are an Office of the University Centre, located at the Cave Hill Campus in Barbados. The Office exists to co-ordinate and monitor the University's outreach and distance education activity, with particular responsibility for the University's place in the Non-Campus Countries (NCCs).

We hope this site will serve

to present the basic proposals for the Open Campus of the UWI (Comments are welcome on this document, which will allow us to update and expand its contents. Please address them to bnccde@uwichill.edu.bb.)
to allow you to engage us in dialogue on [the work of the Office](index.htm#Work in progress in the Office)
to put you in touch with [key units](index.htm#The Board) in our outreach activity
to provide access to all Minutes and Papers of the UWIDEC Academic Programme Committee
to provide access to Minutes and Papers of the Board for Non-Campus Countries and Distance Education (from 2005 - earlier material will be added in time)
to provide access to reports of consultations with stakeholders in the countries without a campus
to maintain a record of University activities in the non-campus countries
to inform you of recent and imminent happenings relevant to our responsibilities, in particular the series of Country Conferences
to provide information on scholarships specifically for NCC students (updated June 2007)
to provide a guide to WWW resources on the Caribbean (40K), and finally
to give you some idea of what our staff have been doing as members of the University.

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For a brief summary of what is kept on this site, there is a listing of its pages. The University disclaims any responsibility for the accuracy of the information contained in them. Links followed by an asterisk take you away from pages maintained by the Office.

The Board for Non-Campus Countries and Distance Education (current membership here, and list of meetingshere) is responsible for three executive agencies:

The Distance Education Centre, headquarters at Cave Hill and Units on the other campuses
The School of Continuing Studies, based at Mona with Centres throughout the region
The Tertiary Level Institutions Unit, based at Cave Hill with an Office at Mona.

The above links provide more details of these units, including contact addresses.

The Board meets in general twice a year and usually in a non-campus country. The schedule of meetings can be found here.

The Office of the Board consists of:

Professor Lawrence D. Carrington, Pro-Vice-Chancellor
Mr Edwin P. Brandon, Programme Co-ordinator
Dr Glenford D. Howe, Research Officer
Ms Rosemary Jordan, Administrative Assistant
Ms Sherry-Anne Toppin, Secretary

Professor Carrington retires in July 2007. He will be replaced by Professor Hazel Simons-McDonald.

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Work in progress in the Office

We attempt to collect information on non-routine UWI activities in the non-campus countries.
The Office has formulated a revised and updated version of its earlier Strategic Plan for Outreach to the Non-Campus Countries.
We are collecting data relevant to the University's outreach work, for instance with respect to potential students' access to computers and the Internet.
We are collecting data relevant to the Strategic Plan and the UWI's role in the region.
A good time ago we prepared a report on policy issues relating mainly to distance education (52K) in the context of the CDB Loan Project. We hope this will help to stimulate reflection in the University on the place of distance education in our work.
We are glad to present here another view of the future of distance education, a paper presented at a seminar at Cave Hill by Professor Stewart Marshall, from Central Queensland University, now Director of the Distance Education Centre here.