BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Have student support services become more complex? Or, has society, in its effort to remove the elitism of tertiary education, thrown out the reverence and thought which was formerly given to chosing a path of higher learning, leaving behind institutions which have become attractors of high debt and procrastinators?
It was a thought which rested on our minds, even as members of the Caribbean Tertiary Level Personnel Association (CTLPA) met in Barbados last week for its annual congress. The CTLPA was founded in 1996 as the first professional body of student affairs administrators.
Spanning Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Guyana, Surniname and some of the OECS countries, the organisation has in its mandate to enhance the student’s academic approach to qualitative learning and sensitise them to the working world expectation of a tertiary level graduate, while professionally developing administrators to better meet the changing demands of modern students.