Professor Clement Sankat has been reappointed as Principal of the University of the West Indies, St Augustine.
In a statement yesterday, the Vice-Chancellor of UWI, Professor E Nigel Harris, announced that the University Finance and General Purposes Committee has accepted his recommendation for the reappointment of Sankat as Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the St Augustine Campus for four more years until September 30, 2016.
Sankat was first appointed as campus Principal on January 1, 2008, succeeding Professor Bridget Brereton who acted as Principal for six months following the appointment of former Principal Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie as Minister of Planning and Development.
During his first term as Principal, Sankat has overseen a significant expansion of both the undergraduate and postgraduate student bodies, outstripping the other UWI campuses to become the largest residential UWI campus, without any apparent decline in the quality of academic and service delivery; attainment of accreditation of many professional programmes such as engineering, medicine, veterinary medicine and dentistry; capped off by the achievement of institutional accreditation by the Accre-
ditation Council of Trin-
idad and Tobago (ACTT).
why was he replaced in the first place
