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Barbados: Effective 2014, Students to pay for their tuition at the University of West Indies
In 2007, the financial contribution of the Barbados government to the university was US$39.65 million, a figure that increased to US$60.25 million a year later.
Sinckler further revealed that since 2006 the total contribution by Barbados to the university has exceeded the combined contribution to all of the island-nation’s elementary, high schools as well as the Barbados Community College and the Samuel Jackman Prescod Polytechnic.
“As a consequence, the government has decided that in an effort to assist it in meeting the exploding costs of university education it has now become necessary to ask students attending and desirous of attending the University of the West Indies to contribute to their education in a more direct manner,” Sinckler told legislators and the nation. -(CMC)
