Seventh-day Adventist-owned and operated Northern Caribbean University (NCU) recently has achieved institutional accreditation status from the University Council of Jamaica. This was announced by Dr. Lincoln Edwards during a press conference held on the main campus of the university in Mandeville last month.
The status is effective as of February 17, 2019, and is for a period of seven years.
“The major significance of gaining institutional accreditation status is that NCU now has the authority, ability and capacity to develop and offer degree programs without the need for approval from the University Council of Jamaica,” said Dr. Edwards.
Institutional accreditation is a type of quality assurance process under which services and operations of educational institutions or programs are evaluated by an external body to determine if applicable standards are met. If standards are met, accredited status is granted by the appropriate agency.
Edwards pointed out that NCU is only one of three tertiary education institution operating in Jamaica that enjoys institutional accreditation status, the other being the University of the West Indies (UWI) and the University of Technology (UTECH).
“The recent news of institutional accreditation grated to NCU by the UCJ comes as a welcome news for the board of governors and the wider Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica,” said Pastor Everett Brown, Chairman of the Board of Governors of NCU.
