?The Gov­ern­ment will ex­pand the law fac­ul­ty of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies in St Au­gus­tine to par­tic­u­lar­ly ac­com­mo­date T&T law stu­dents, Sci­ence, Tech­nol­o­gy and Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Chris­tine Kan­ga­loo said yes­ter­day. And the At­tor­ney Gen­er­al's of­fice is al­so con­sid­er­ing ex­pand­ing the High Wood­ing Law School, she added. Kan­ga­loo, in Par­lia­ment, not­ed that in 2007 there were 1,700 ap­pli­cants for 124 places in the quo­ta sys­tem at UWI, and sim­i­lar­ly larg­er num­bers in sub­se­quent years. She said it was clear that the de­mand for places in the law fac­ul­ty ex­ceeds the ca­pac­i­ty. She said stu­dents were find­ing oth­er means of study­ing for the LLB de­gree.

Kan­ga­loo not­ed that Cari­com lead­ers had asked the Gov­ern­ment to take steps to ex­pand the fac­ul­ty to ac­com­mo­date stu­dents. There­fore, the Gov­ern­ment plans to ex­pand the law fac­ul­ty at UWI to a full three-year pro­gramme in­stead of the one-year seg­ment now in force. This will ac­com­mo­date more stu­dents and re­duce costs of UWI's LLB stu­dents. A new post-grad­u­ate pro­gramme in law will be in­sti­tut­ed and will fa­cil­i­tate op­por­tu­ni­ties for prac­tis­ing lawyers in T&T to study al­so. Kan­ga­loo said the ex­pand­ed fac­ul­ty would be based on 69,000 square feet of land, off Cheese­man Av­enue in St Au­gus­tine. (GA)