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…students with outstanding tuition fees allowed to sit exams
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n Thursday, April 25, 2017, Prof. Stephen Vasciannie, President announced that following
consultations between officials of the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information and officials of
the University of Technology, Jamaica, all undergraduate students with outstanding fees for the
2016/2017 Academic Year would be allowed to sit their end of semester examinations starting on May
1, 2017.
The arrangement was made on the assumption that at least some of the fees owed to the University
of Technology, Jamaica, by Jamaican students will be covered by the Government of Jamaica for the
current year. This would apply to undergraduate students in all years of study. Students who benefit
from the initiative are required to participate in a community service project or in some form of service
programme of the Government of Jamaica. This may be, for instance, through the Jamaica Values and
Attitudes (JAMVAT) Programme.
The Government announced earlier in April 2017 that $300 million dollars had been allocated to help
Jamaican students who are financially challenged at the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech, Ja.),
University of the West Indies (UWI) and the Caribbean Maritime Institute (CMI).
Senator the Hon Ruel Reid, CD, JP
Minister of Education, Youth & Information
UTech, Jamaica Students Benefit from Government Waiver
Full Professors of the University of Technology, Jamaica
Professor Colin Gyles
Deputy President
Professor Kent Pantry, CD, QC
Associate Vice President, Legal
Affairs
Professor Rosalea Hamilton
Vice President, Development and
Community Service
Professor Nilza Aples
Dean, Faculty of Engineering and
Computing
Professor Winston Davidson
Head of School
School of Public Health and Health
Technology
Professor Homero Silva-Serrano
Adjunct Professor of Public
Health, School of Public Health
and Health Technology
Professor Fitzroy Henry
Professor of Public Health
Nutrition
College of Health Sciences
Professor Vernon Buchanan
Faculty of Engineering and
Computing
VOICES Bi-Monthly Magazine of the University of Technology, Jamaica |
June 2017