University of the West Indies at Cave Hill

The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus' academic programmes offer diversity at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

The university was founded in 1948, on the recommendation of the Asquith Commission on Higher Education in the Colonies,[4] through its sub-committee on the West Indies chaired by Sir James Irvine.

Sir Arthur Lewis, then Vice-Chancellor of the independent UWI, wanted to expand the university beyond Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago to serve the "little eight" - the eastern Caribbean islands.

[6] The "little eight" comprised Grenada, Dominica, St. Kitts, and Nevis, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Montserrat.

These islands, smaller than either Jamaica or Trinidad and Tobago, had been members of the West Indies Federation but upon its dissolution, were isolated and in need of regional support.

[8] Initially, it was called the College of Arts and Sciences [9] and received significant support from the Government of Barbados in the form of free university education for its citizens.

This represented a 9 per cent decline from the previous year, largely due to a change in policy by the Government of Barbados resulting in students having to pay university tuition fees.

The original, temporary campus, then known as the College of Arts and Science, was located at the Trade Fair site, at the Deep Water Harbour.

[14][15] Activities at the Dukes Lands include training in various areas of agro-business, such as producing leather goods and manufacturing chocolate, research and support for entrepreneurial initiatives.