Application requirements
Successful completion of The
Certificate in Basic Financial Services Practice as well
as The Diploma in Financial Services Practice
OR
Be considered a Mature Student
Applicants will be accepted for
admission as Mature Students if they fulfill the
following criteria:
- Have been out of school for at
least five (5) years
- Are over the age of twenty-one
(21)
- Have demonstrated academic
potential
- Have gained academically
relevant knowledge and work place experience
All applicants MUST BE
standing members of The Eastern Caribbean Institute of
Banking and Financial Institutes (ECIB) and/or The
Caribbean Association of Banking and Finance Institutes
(CABFI)
Exemptions
Applicants who have successfully
completed The Certificate in Basic Financial Services
Practice as well as The Diploma in Financial Services
Practice will be awarded twenty-four (24) Level 1
credits. A total of thirty (30) credits are required to
successfully complete this Level.
Applicants may apply to the
Assistant Registrar, Distance Education Centre,
University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, for
exemptions from other courses. These will be reviewed on
a case-by-case basis.
How to apply
Once you are sure that you meet the
UWIDEC’s application requirements, you may
download an application form from:
http://www.dec.uwi.edu/docs/forms/apply.doc
Applications along with the
required documentation must be mailed or faxed to:
Ms. Gillian Beckles
Assistant Registrar
Distance Education Centre
The University of the West Indies
Cave Hill Campus
P.O. Box 64, Bridgetown
Barbados
Tel: (246) 417-4501 Fax: (246)
421-6753
Email:
gbeckles@uwichill.edu.bb
The application process
- Application forms should be
completed carefully by following the instructions
provided.
- When completing the form,
please be sure to print clearly, press firmly as you
write, and provide all the information requested.
- Return completed application
forms with the relevant documents to The Assistant
Registrar, Distance Education Centre.
Documents to be submitted with your application
Along with your application form,
you must submit the original (along with one photocopy
each) of the following documents to the Assistant
Registrar, Distance Education Centre:
- Birth certificate
- Academic certificates/grade
slips
- Professional
certificates/diplomas (where applicable)
- Marriage certificate/deed poll
(whichever is applicable) if the present name is
different from that on documents). Each name must be
spelt correctly and also correctly hyphenated, where
necessary.
The Assistant Registrar, Distance
Education Centre, will certify the photocopies of your
documents and return the originals to Mr. Analdo Bailey,
CEO, ECIB for you to collect.
Registration
Registration for courses takes
place each semester and involves the following
components, all of which must be done for the process to
be complete:
- Selection of courses and
approval of academic programme
- Assistant Registrar’s approval
Procedures for registration
Go to the ‘eLearning’
section on your portal and view the courses available
for the semester.
Check the deadline for submission.
Complete your registration by
downloading the Registration Form at:
Registration
Form
On completion, your Registration
Form must be mailed or faxed to:
Ms. Gillian Beckles
Assistant Registrar
Distance Education Centre
The University of the West Indies
Cave Hill Campus
P.O. Box 64, Bridgetown
Barbados
Tel: (246) 417-4501 Fax: (246)
421-6753
Email:
gbeckles@uwichill.edu.bb
Your registration will be approved
by the relevant Faculty and the Assistant Registrar or
her designated official.
Number of credit hours for which you can register
As a part-time distance student,
you will be allowed to register for a maximum of
twenty-one (21) credits or a minimum of twelve (12)
credits over a period of two (2) semesters. In your
first semester (as a new student), we suggest that you
register for two (2) three-credit courses and no more
than three (3) courses in any semester.
Registering for courses for which you are awaiting
results
The registrar recognizes that
sometimes results are late and therefore allows students
to register for courses while awaiting results. However,
you must get approval from you Faculty.
Registering for a course already passed
A candidate who has recorded a pass
in a course will not be permitted to re-register for
that course.
Trailing lower level courses into the level above
Normally, the Faculty will allow
you to trail no more than two (2) Level 1 courses into
Level 2, provided that the courses you are trailing are
not prerequisites for the courses for which you have
registered for Level 2.
You may also be allowed to commence
Level 3 courses and trail no more that two (2) Level 2
courses, provided you have satisfied the prerequisites
for the Level 3 courses.
Qualifying
Test/Remedial Courses
The English Language Proficiency Test (ELPT)
The ELPT must be taken by all students
who do not have the qualifications to allow them to
register for English for Academic Purposes (FOUN1001/FD10A).
Depending on your campus of registration, the ELPT is
used for various purposes. For students seeking
admission through the Cave Hill and St. Augustine
campuses, the ELPT is a diagnostic test. For candidates
seeking entry through the Mona campus,
passing the
ELPT is an entry requirement for admission into all
undergraduate degree programmes.
Persons in the following categories are
exempted from the ELPT:
(a) Persons with any one of the
following English Language qualifications:
(i) Grade 1 - CXC English ‘A’
examination
(ii) Grade A - Cambridge GCE O’ Level
(iii) Grade A or B - Cambridge GCE
‘A’/O’ Level General Paper examination
(b) Persons who are applying to enter a
UWI undergraduate Diploma or Certificate programme.
What if you fail the English Language
Proficiency Test?
If you fail the ELPT, you will have to
take a course called Language
Proficiency for Tertiary Level. Selfinstructional materials are designed for this course
and they can be bought from your DE site. Enquire at
your site for information on how to obtain
these materials. Once you have completed the course, you
retake the ELPT. Different campuses offer the test
at different times throughout the academic year. Check
at your site to find out when and how often the test is
administered by the campus at which you are registered.
Remedial Mathematics
For entry into certain B.Sc. programmes,
Mathematics is a requirement. You are required to have a
minimum of CXC General Proficiency or the
equivalent, or else you will be required to pass
MATH0900/CE001 Mathematics 1 in the summer prior to admission to
the programme of study, or by the end
of Semester 1 in the year of entry to your programme of study. You
should consult your Head of the University Centre/Site
Coordinator for information about how to access MATH0900
through the School of Continuing Studies. You should note
that you are required to obtain a grade of at
least B+ in this course for equivalency.
Since CXC, O’level Mathematics or
MATH0900/CE001 is a prerequisite for ECON1003/EC14C
Mathematics for the Social Sciences I; you are
required to obtain the requisite pass in one of these
Mathematics courses before you are allowed to register
for ECON1003/EC14C.
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1 This is a remedial mathematics course
offered through the School of Continuing Studies.
NOTE:
- The Next ELPT
exam will be held on March 5th 2007.
- Student must
turn up at their respective UWIDEC site for this
exam.
- Please keep
checking this portal for the times of the exam.
Foundation Courses
All students registered for The
Faculty of Social Sciences undergraduate degree
programmes at the University of the West Indies are
required to complete a minimum of six (6) credits of
Foundation Courses. Applicants will therefore need to
comply with this regulation by taking six (6) credits of
the following Foundation Courses:
FOUN 1001 English for Academic
Purposes
And one (1) of the following:
FOUN 1101 Caribbean Civilisation
FOUN 1210 Science, Medicine and
Technology
Trailing Foundation Courses
Students can trail Foundation
Courses. This means, for example, that even though FOUN
1001 is a Level 1 Foundation Course, you do not have to
complete it before going on to Level 2 and you can take
it during your second year. However, you should note
that trailing might add to your course load and create
additional strain on your time resources.
Requirements for the Award of the Degree
In order to qualify for the award of the B Sc Degree in
Banking and Finance, a student must complete a minimum
of 90 credits (equivalent to 30 courses), of which:
- 30
credits are from Level 1 courses, and must include
six (6) credits of Foundation courses.
- 60
credits are from Levels 2 and 3 courses.
Each
course is worth three (3) credits.
Students are required to pass each component of FOUN
1001 (i.e. coursework and final examination) in order to
qualify for a pass overall.
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