Bridgetown.
Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler is questioning whether the University of the West Indies(UWI) is allocating resources in terms of achieving the country economic objectives.
Noting that the cost of university education had skyrocketed in the past decade , Sinckler queried whether the growth areas had been targeted in the policy of placing a university graduate in every household or if the traditional areas of management, law and medicine had been reienforced.
"Did we really need for example, a new fully articulated medical faculty to train more doctors to fight for limited space at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, or could we have targeted those resources more toward training in new technologies", ask Sinckler.
He was speaking at the annual conference of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre on the subject of a new economy for Barbados last night.
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