?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)
