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Welcome to UWISpace, The University of the West Indies Institutional Repository for Research and Scholarship

This archive was established by the UWI Libraries to support the dissemination of knowledge by providing open access to the digitally preserved intellectual output of the University. Here we aim to collect together in one place the research and scholarship of members of the UWI community. UWISpace provides a platform for the collection, organisation, access and preservation of scholarly information in digital formats.

Departments and individuals wishing to deposit their research material in the UWISpace archive can email the administrators, or phone (868) 662 2002, Exts. 84419, 82241, 82215 at The Alma Jordan Library, St. Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.

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Assessing Education and Productivity

(2021-03) Thomas, David

As one of the driving forces in the economy, education allows for a country to increase its productivity through human capital development and innovation, as well as creating productivity improvement and fostering productivity centered behaviours. In a Belgian report Kampelmann et al. (2018), examine how education impacts productivity. The results showed that high and middle educated workers were significantly more productive than workers with lower educational levels. This study highlights the positive correlation between educational levels and productivity.

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Promoting Education through Satellite Connectivity: A Jamaica Case Study

(2022-01-27) Viasat

Viasat partnered with ReadyNet per the Ministry of Education’s goal to connect schools across Jamaica: • Collaboration with Jamaican Ministries of Education, Science, Energy and Technology and Spectrum Management Authority • VSAT license streamlining, and fee reduction led to: • 100 sites installed in 48 days • Plans to connect several hundred more sites • Use of Ka band and High-Throughput Satellite technology gives each school 25/5 Mbits/s which allows for simultaneous use of: • High-definition video conferencing • Multiple video streaming services • Connection for on-line education platforms

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Does education prevent job loss during downturns? Evidence from exogenous school assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados

(National Bureau of Economic Research, 2022-02) Beuermann, Diether W.; Bottan, Nicolas L.; Hoffmann, Bridget; Jackson, C. Kirabo; Cossio, Diego A. Vera

Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker will be laid-off during times of economic change. Yet, this has not been demonstrated causally. We link administrative education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally representative surveys conducted before and after COVID-19 onset in Barbados to explore the causal impact of improved education on job loss during this period. Using a regression discontinuity (RD) design, we show that females (but not males) who score just above the admission threshold for more selective secondary schools attain more years of education than those that scored just below (essentially holding initial ability fixed). We then find that these same females are much less likely to have lost a job after the onset of COVID-19. We show that these effects are not driven by labor supply decisions, fertility or access to child care, or selection into more resilient sectors and occupations. Because employers observe incumbent worker productivity, these patterns are inconsistent with pure education signaling, and suggest that education enhances worker skill.

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Open Innovative Schooling: Presentation to the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information – Jamaica

(2018-04) Commonwealth of Learning (COL)

This document serves to discuss the possibility of a partnership between the Ministry of Education, Youth and Information and COL to support the Ministry with the challenges related to drop out and throughput rates in schools and out-of-school youth.

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Negro versus Newsday: Comparative Articulatory and Acoustic Phonetic Analyses of These Two Words as Used in Trinidadian Speech

(2022) Ferreira, Jo-Anne S.; Gooden, Shelome

This document was prepared in response to controversial articles and comments made on a speech recording circulating in social media. This document is intended to serve as expert analysis of the recording.