University Of The West Indies Open Campus (Cayman) - Cayman Islands

The UWI was established in 1948 and had the foresight to create an extra-mural department within the University to provide the Caribbean community with essential outreach services. This was seen as an integral part of the very concept of being a regional university.

The UWI was designed to serve an archipelago of 14 countries which were divided by the Caribbean Sea from Belize in the West to Trinidad and Tobago in the south – a distance of 3,000 km. The Leeward and Windward Islands, by comparison, are fairly close in proximity, however, they are over 1,600 km from Jamaica, which further compounds the challenges of distance.

Since those early days, the Extra-Mural Department of UWI has evolved into the School of Continuing Studies (SCS), which has used its extensive extra-mural  

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experience to offer direct local and regional responses to the need for continuing knowledge, skills, professional development, research, and cultural identity throughout the Caribbean.