Downers Grove, Ill., Aug 05, 2011-- DeVry Inc., a global provider of educational services, today announced it has acquired the business operations of privately held American University of the Caribbean (AUC). AUC's medical school campus is located in St. Maarten, and its administrative offices are located in Coral Gables, Fla.

March 29, 2011 - Commonwealth Secretariat, Commonwealth of Learning and Microsoft Trinidad and Tobago jointly agree to improve access to, and use of, Information and Communication Technologies

NEW YORK--March 29, 2011--With their medical school student population facing unacceptable attrition rates, senior managers at a large Caribbean medical school faced board of trustee scrutiny, unwanted regulator attention and the risk of restricted growth. Unable to internally pinpoint the root cause, they turned to TABB Group Education Services, a new division being formally launched today at The TABB Group, the strategic advisory and research firm with offices in New York and London.

Dec. 23, 2010 -- (http://www.nytimes.com): For a generation, medical schools in the Caribbean have attracted thousands of American students to their tiny island havens by promising that during their third and fourth years, the students would get crucial training in United States hospitals, especially in New York State. But in a fierce turf battle rooted in the growing pressures on the medical profession and academia, New York State’s 16 medical schools are attacking their foreign competitors.

Nassau, Bahamas - Oct. 1, 2010 -- The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) will help create a new Caribbean Competitiveness Center at the University of the West Indies (UWI) with a US$750,000 grant.

OECS Secretariat, Castries, St. Lucia -- Sept. 28, 2010 -- OECS Ministers for Education have decided to introduce the Caribbean Primary Exit Examination which is to replace the Common Entrance and Grade 6 national assessment.

Washington -- Mar. 1, 2010 -- The Inter-American Development Bank has approved $45 million in financing to improve Jamaica's education system and expand compulsory schooling from 16 years to 18 years of age.

PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay — Dec. 4, 2009 — As part of Microsoft Corp.’s efforts to promote jobs, opportunities, education and innovation through its Unlimited Potential initiative, the company announced that twenty-five nonprofit organizations in the region will receive a combined $1.925 million (U.S.) in cash, and another 155 institutions will receive software donations equivalent to $5.413 million (U.S.).

Kingston -- March 18, 2009 -- Local construction firm, Surrey Paving and Aggregate, has partnered with Singapore's Air Transport Training College (ATTC) to open the Caribbean Aerospace College in Jamaica, (in the next 3 months), which will provide training in aircraft engineering.

The Hague -- Jan. 7, 2009 -- The Dutch Government has increased its budget to improve education on the BES islands Bonaire, St. Eustatius and Saba.

Kingston -- Dec. 18, 2008 -- Jamaica will build and repair schools and improve the quality and efficiency of its primary education system with a $14 million loan approved Dec. 17 by the Inter-American Development Bank.

Jan. 14, 2013 - Steps are being taken here to phase out the Common Entrance Examination by the year 2014.

Miami, FL. (October 15, 2012)— The 14th Annual Eric E. Williams Memorial Lecture at Florida International University’s Modesto Maidique campus (11200 Southwest Eighth Street, Miami, Florida) will take place at the Green Library, GL 100 on Friday, October 26, 2012 at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.

Bridgetown - Oct. 1, 2012 - Education Sector Enhancement Programme (ESEP) II will be financed through an agreement signed April 3, 2012, for a loan of US$35 million from the CDB and counterpart resources from the Government of Barbados.

Aug. 23, 2012 - (jamaicaobserver.com): The leadership of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) is fuming in the wake of calls for an enquiry into whether it is to be blamed for the significant decline in pass rates for English Language and Mathematics among students throughout the Caribbean in May this year.