The School of Continuing Studies was established in St. Vincent and the Grenadines in 1949. The present SCS building was built and handed over in September 1971. The Official opening of the Centre took place on Saturday December 4th, 1971.
The Library existed from the official opening of the Centre in 1971. It is an academic library which provides a valuable service to the community as a reference centre. It is an excellent reference and study facility for senior school students, university graduates and staff at the Teachers' College.
In 1977 with the introduction of the Challenge Outreach programme by the Faculty of Social Sciences, the role of the library took on the added responsibility of providing support services to students involved in that programme. In 1989 the SCS Centre was expanded to accommodate UWIDITE, now UWIDEC, and the library also took on the added responsibility of trying to providing some support to the students of that program.
Recently a new building has been added to the Centre to accommodate teleconference rooms and a computer lab:
Like the other UWI SCS, the St. Vincent Centre offers a number of Distance Education Programmes as well as local programes. These UWIDEC programmes include:
Academic
| Resident Tutor | Dr Adrian Fraser |
Honorarary/Advisory
Chairman, UWI Territorial Advisory Council |
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President St Vincent Branch – UWI Guild of Graduates |
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Established Staff
| Administrative Assistant | ? |
| Executive Officer | ? |
| Technician | ? |
| Receptionist | ? |
| Clerk | ? |
| Library Assistant | Miss Patricia Baptiste |
| Office Attendant | ? |
You may contact the Centre thus:
| PO Box 610, Kingstown | |
| Telephone | (784) 456 1183 |
| Fax | (784) 456 1251 |
| scs@caribsurf.com |
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