Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHiPS) IV

Bridgetown, Barbados

The theme for the fourth instalment of the Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium (CHiPS) will be education, more specifically tertiary education. This area has been selected because 2008 is the 60th anniversary of the University of the West Indies, a university which began as an elite institution, but which has now turned to mass tertiary education, due in part to shifts that have occurred in thinking about the place of tertiary level education within Caribbean society. This is not a phenomenon that is unique to the Caribbean, however. We are therefore interested in exploring issues such as the roles of tertiary education, its value, the relationship between tertiary level education and development, gender issues in such education, teaching and learning, and the place of vocational training.

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