UCC student, Nicola Gibson is Governor Designate of the Eastern Canada and Caribbean (EC&C) District of Circle K, the tertiary level co-educational service, leadership development and friendship club, organized and sponsored by the Kiwanis.

Gibson was elected for the highest post in the District ahead of two other nominees from the University of the West Indies, Mona and University of Technology....

The University College of the Caribbean (UCC), joined a host of local organisations and over 8,000 supporters to participate in the 2008 Sigma 5K Corporate Run last Sunday, March 9, 2008 in Kingston. The first timers picked up two medals from the event. Team captain Stacey Dennis was placed fourth among the 80 female Elite athletes while Allan Barnett received a medal for placing in the top 200 runners. The annual fundraiser organized by Pan Caribbean Bank celebrates its 10th staging this year.

Accountants, financiers, lawyers, business analysts and business students etc. are all operational stakeholders with vested interest in some aspects of the financial sector. But not all the stakeholders are au fait with the intricacies of regulation and how it may enhance or inhibit their function/operation.

In 2004 the University College of the Caribbean (UCC) and the Florida International University (FIU) agreed to offer the FIU Master of Science in Human Resource Management locally. The initial programme was eagerly welcomed by persons who longed for internationally recognized post graduate training in this high demand field.

With all the changes and diversification of activity in the Securities and Financial Sector in Jamaica, it would be an asset to professionals in the industry as well as those interested in entering the sector to complement the qualifications and experience they already possess with proper certification. Individuals should be able to understand and manage their own, as well their clients’ portfolios and provide them with a variety of different financial services.

Students of computing degrees usually focus primarily on specialized knowledge to the abandonment of much else. But not at UCC. Guided by market realities in the development of its Information Technology, (IT) and Management Information Systems (MIS) programmes, the institution has deviated again from the norm to ensure that its students graduate with competencies to excel in their specialization as well as operate their own establishments; or at least, have an appreciation of fundamental business processes.

The Florida International University, (FIU) in collaboration with the University College of the Caribbean, (UCC), will host the first information session this year, for its International Executive MBA (IEMBA) programme. The session will be held 6:00 pm February 11 at the Hilton Kingston hotel.

Times are changing. The job market is saturated and calls to engender a much more vibrant entrepreneurial culture is coming from politicians, business people and educators alike. The University College of the Caribbean (UCC) is responding with a new slate of core courses that it says will help its students better adapt and make a valuable contribution to society.

The University College of the Caribbean has joined a number of local organisations to offer training towards the Accounting profession’s most globally accepted certification, the ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) and the more recently instituted lower level designation, Certified Accounting Technician (CAT).

Returning students registered for undergraduate studies at the University College of the Caribbean, (UCC) are expected to be joined by an influx of new students who entered the system at the start of the January semester.

On Thursday January 10, 2008 the first cohorts of the Commonwealth Executive Masters programmes offered exclusively by the University College of the Caribbean (UCC), commenced classes in Kingston. The forty-six member cohort is refreshingly dominated by men, though by a small margin of eight percentage points. The institution’s administrators are heartened by this turn out in male registrants who have been noticeably absent from the classroom.

The new students of UCC started the New Year briskly, wasting no time to register for classes for the Spring Semester from January – May 2007. Scores of new students turned up to register for classes and collect booklists and other critical materials.

As we approach the close of yet another splendid year, the University College of the Caribbean seeks to extend the warmest of holiday wishes to you all. we hope that it will be filled with tranquility and bliss, and pray that this will become the model for the remainder of 2007, continuing into 2008 and beyond.

The University College of the Caribbean and the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to undertake activities to improve the services offered to their students and assist in mutual growth and development.

The University College of the Caribbean (UCC), has made a giant step in its Distance Education programme. Since September of this year students anywhere in Jamaica and the world at large with high speed Internet access can now enroll in its undergraduate Business Administration programmes at the Associate and Bachelor degree levels. This as the Distance Education and Global Learning unit (DEGL) rolled out its Internet Video Streaming modality, which facilitates on-line video streaming of live and recorded lectures in Business Administration.

UCC STUDENTS TO EXHIBIT AT INTERNATIONAL STUDENT'S DAY

Students from the University College of the Caribbean, (UCC) will be among representatives from local tertiary institutions to exhibit
technology on International Students’ Day. The student presentations will be made in an effort to highlight pioneering work by local scholars and is also hoped to promote the commercialization of their projects.

Essay writing is among the most common academic exercises, yet it’s mastery escapes most students......
The University College of the Caribbean will be hosting an essay writing workshop for students and anyone desirous of developing their linguistic skill on Wednesday, 31st October, 2007

The University College of the Caribbean, (UCC) bids farewell to SwimJamaica principals and Brits Catherine and Peter Moore. The volunteer couple will be returning home to their native United Kingdom after infusing life into the Amateur Swimming Association of Jamaica (ASAJ) national swim training programme over the last two years...

INNOVATION AT IT'S BEST

In today’s techno-savvy society just about everyone expects information to be at their fingertips and why shouldn’t they when the infrastructure and the resources to facilitate this convenience are easily accessible and in some cases free. This was the thinking of a group of final year students from the first cohort of the Bachelor of Information Technology (IT) programme at the University College of the Caribbean, (UCC) who developed a virtual tour of the main campus in completion of the requirements for their degree.

FALL SEMESTER REGISTRATION ONGOING

The Worthington Campus of the University College of the Caribbean, (UCC) was abuzz with activity this past week as the registration process for the new semester got into high gear. Following the passage of Hurricane Dean, the preliminary activities were postponed by a week to August 27 through August 30 at UCC centres island-wide.