Pocket statistics: Tertiary Education in Dominica

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Overview of the tertiary education system in Dominica

The country has a population of approximately 78 000 people with 28% reported to reside in rural areas and 31% of the population between 0 and 14 years of age. Trend statistics for the last decade are not available.

Tertiary Gross Enrolment Ratio Statistics

Source:Unesco Institute for Statistics

	1990/91	1998/99	2000/01	2002/03	VUSSC Average
MF Total	-	-	-	26%	-
Male	-	-	-	24%	-
Female	-	-	-	28%	-

There are two government funded tertiary education institutions in the country providing learning opportunities for several hundred students. There are also two medical schools providing instruction primarily to foreigners, but some Dominicans as well. In addition, many students use distance learning to earn degrees from universities in other countries, and there are several private tutorial colleges that provide instruction for external programmes of universities based in other countries, such as the University of London.

Government funded Tertiary Education Institutions

The University of the West Indies (St Augustine Campus)

Name of Institution	The University of the West Indies (St Augustine Campus)
Website	http://www.uwi.edu/
Type of Institution	University The University of the West Indies has four campuses: Cave Hill Campus (Barbados), Mona Campus (Jamaica), St Augustine Campus (Trinidad and Tobago), and the Open Campus.
Main mode of delivery	UWI is classed as dual mode, but the majority of courses are solely classroom-based
Number of students	several thousand
Learning Management Systems	Primarily Moodle, secondarily WebCT
Overview of e-learning	The Open Campus, formerly known as the Distance Education Centre or UWIDEC) is responsible for distance education in all sixteen (16) English-speaking territories of the West Indies that UWI serves. These territories are Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St.Vincent and The Grenadines,Trinidad and Tobago and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The Open Campus uses "blended learning" as the delivery model (i.e., a blend of print, online resources and e-tutorials, CD-ROMs, audio-conferencing, and face-to-face) and Moodle as its Learning Management System. Some Cave Hill Campus course lecturers are using e-learning to supplement to their face-to-face teaching. Mainly they use WebCT as their Learning Management System.

Dominica State College (Stock Farm, Dominica)

Name of Institution	Dominica State College
Website	http://www.dsc.dm
Type of Institution	Community College
Main mode of delivery	Campus-based
Number of students	Several hundred
Learning Management System(s)	N/A
Overview of e-learning	Limited

Other Tertiary Education Institutions

Ross University School of Medicine (Picard, Dominica)

Name of Institution	Ross University School of Medicine
Website	http://www.rossmed.edu.dm/
Type of Institution	Medical School
Main mode of delivery	Campus-based
Number of students	Several hundred
Learning Management System(s)	N/A
Overview of e-learning	Limited

All Saints University (Grand Bay, Dominica)

Name of Institution	All Saints University
Website	http://www.allsaintsuniversity.org/dominica/
Type of Institution	Medical School
Main mode of delivery	Campus-based
Number of students
Learning Management System(s)	N/A
Overview of e-learning	Limited

New World University (Roseau, Dominica)

Name of Institution	New World University
Website	http://newworld.ac
Type of Institution	University
Main mode of delivery	Distance Learning
Number of students
Learning Management System(s)	Primarily Moodle, secondarily self-developed
Overview of e-learning	Subjects are largely correspondence style, but include a considerable amount of e-learning, including textbooks and videos viewable online.