Wean University of the West Indies from education budget

THE EDITOR, Sir:

I absolutely agree with the education minister that the University of the West Indies (UWI) should be weaned from Government subsidy. When it was the sole provider in the region of undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate tertiary education, it was a morally justified partnership. Now it is not! There is no sustainable argument to refute this.

It is the same thing for the UWI regional law schools that are treaty governed to guarantee access to UWI undergraduate law degree holders. It is unadulterated discrimination rather than immutability of the treaty provision that has preserved the aberration so long. No lobby, petition, or negotiation is necessary to dispense with it.

I feel a collective sense of shame for UWI, my tertiary alma mater, that its Guild of Students is a surrogate of the political party tribes, and as a result of this, is bereft of the morality and intellectual facility to propose to the University Council and regional governments the appropriate solution that dignifies graduates by enabling them to truly own their education because they invested in it. The perpetual mendicancy is loud and vulgar.

HYLTON DENNIS

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