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The University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) says it is so impressed with its Caribbean students that it plans to increase the number of students it recruits from the tropical islands.

Already it has an international student population of 700, of which 100 are from the Caribbean.Total enrollment stands at around 10,000.

“It’s an important market for us,” Associate Registrar and Director of Enrollment Services Joe Stokes told the Jamaica Observer on Tuesday. “Our second-largest population of students is from the Caribbean; Bermuda has the largest, followed by Jamaica, then Barbados, the Bahamas and Trinidad.

“We made the Caribbean market a priority last year. It is the only English-speaking overseas market where we recruit and it’s for a number of reasons. The school system is great. The students do well, and we want successful students to enrol in our programmes,” Stokes continued.

The benefit for the students, he said, is that they get to pursue programmes that are either not offered in their home country, or are offered differently. Two popular ones, according to his data, are medical sciences and health sciences, in general.

Stokes explained that UOIT has existing partnership agreements with all three campuses of The University of the West Indies to foster student and faculty exchanges. And, added to that, it is currently seeking to extend programmes to the University of Technology, Jamaica, and other schools.

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