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Future-Proofing The UWI: Leading the Digital Revolution
The future is not something we wait for—it’s something we build.
The Vice-Chancellor’s Annual Report to Council 2024–2025 captures a year in which we moved boldly to anticipate change, strengthen our foundations, and position our University—and our region—at the forefront of innovation. Discover how The UWI is advancing AI, digital transformation, global partnerships, and research to drive Caribbean progress.
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Innovation Report Feature with Vice-Chancellor Beckles
The Innovation Report highlights how universities globally address major challenges like climate change, AI, and sustainable development. In this interview, Vice-Chancellor Beckles discusses The UWI's role as a Caribbean innovation hub, emphasizing its efforts to turn financial challenges into opportunities through research commercialization, entrepreneurship, and ethical partnerships.
Turning a Coastal Crisis into Clean Energy
This The Innovation Report article discusses how a UWI Cave Hill spin-off has pioneered a sustainable solution to the Caribbean’s sargassum crisis by converting seaweed and rum distillery waste into Bio-CNG fuel. The innovation powers standard vehicles with minimal modification, with successful pilot tests and a fuelling station underway—turning an environmental burden into a scalable, regionally relevant renewable energy opportunity.
UWI Rises in Global Rankings
The UWI began 2026 with excellent news. Times Higher Education (THE), the gold standard in global higher education rankings, announced that it has risen among the 33,000+ universities and higher degree‑granting institutions in the world.
In THE’s World University Rankings 2026, which assess institutional performance across teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook, only 2,191 universities from 115 countries qualified to be ranked
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