UWI Open Campus Students Off To Their Graduation Ceremony

Six students of the University of the West Indies Open Campus Anguilla will be travelling to Antigua this week in order to attend the annual Graduation Exercise to be held at the SJPC, House of Restoration Ministries, in St. John’s, Antigua, on Saturday, October 15th, 2011.

Front L-R: Jason Richardson, Icilma Frances-Barry and Nickeisha Hughes Back L – R: Meredith Hodge, Marcia Richardson and Delta Hodge

Five of the graduands – Ms. Icilma Frances Barry, Ms. Delta Hodge, Ms. Meredith Hodge, Ms. Nickeisha Hughes and Mrs. Marcia Richardson – completed degrees in the BSc. Management Studies Programme, while Mr. Jason Richardson completed a degree in the BSc. Banking and Finance Programme.

All graduands have obtained undergraduate degrees with honours.

This year’s Graduation Exercise will be the third such event held to honour UWI Open Campus graduands across the region. The inaugural Graduation Ceremony was held in 2009 in St. Lucia, the 2010 graduation exercise was held in Grenada and this year the ceremony will be held in Antigua.

Five of the graduands are recipients of scholarships funded by the Government of Anguilla, which continues to partner with the UWI Open Campus in Anguilla to allow for higher education opportunities through the provision of the online degree programmes.

The ceremony will be streamed live on http://www.open.uwi.edu.

-Press Release