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Jump in UWI numbers

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WHAT A DIFFERENCE three weeks have made.

And a jump in enrolment by about 1 000 students at the UWI’s Cave Hill campus is evidence to prove it.

The turnaround in fortunes lifts some of the gloom that surrounded the campus’ matriculation ceremony on August 28 when the principal, Professor Eudine Barriteau, reported that enrolment had dropped by nearly 50 per cent as a result of the imposition of tuition fees.

The majority of the new undergraduate enrollees have entered the social sciences faculty, pushing total enrolment to just over 5 000. (ES)

Please read the full story in today’s Sunday Sun, or in the eNATION edition.

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