Book review : The Barbados community college experience : leading the Anglophone Caribbean in a global movement

Abstract

In any sphere of endeavour, 50 years is a milestone. In a region not quite accustomed to telling its own story – our story – this golden tribute to one of our homegrown successes, is to be applauded, supported and emulated. In 1969, the Barbados Community College (BCC) opened its doors to the local community to cater to the island’s growing social demand for post-secondary education. That demand was not unique to Barbados. Indeed, in 1988, nineteen years after the establishment of the College, Professor Compton Bourne, one of the Caribbean’s eminent educators, in comparing the region’s education sector to a pyramid with the primary and secondary sector as the base and the university sector at the apex, had lamented the slimness of the middle segment and called for that segment to be expanded. The Barbados Community College fits the bill perfectly. [excerpt]