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A Brief Look at the History and Future of the School of Mathematics, Physics and Technology
Get PDFThis paper provides a brief history and overview of the development of the School of Mathematics, Physics and Technology at the College of The Bahamas from the College’s inception in 1974 to 2014. It charts the evolution of the School out of two major departments within the College, highlighting the development of the School’s academic courses, programs and research facilities, in the context of the College’s overall strategic plan toward attaining university status. The paper also chronicles the present and past chairpersons and discusses briefly the significance of Mathematics, Physics and Technology in the context of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education within the grander framework of the role of COB in providing widespread tertiary education in The Bahamas. The paper celebrates and analyzes the progress of the School in its various earlier incarnations, and its programs over the past 40 years, and provides some thoughts about the directions in which it should go in helping to fulfill the College’s mandate to transition to a university in 2015
Editorial
Get PDFVolume 20 #2 - Special volume dedicated to the history, development and evolution of the College of The Bahamas
The College of The Bahamas in Research: A Process in Motion
Get PDFThough not previously thought of as a “research” institution, much has been written or published about the College of the Bahamas by past and present faculty and students as well as scholars not associated with the institution. To what extent, though, are researchers publishing about the College of The Bahamas and what percentage are published in the College’s research journals as opposed to elsewhere? The focus of this article is on a select body of research published over the past 40 years by the College of The Bahamas research journals and publications as noted in the ProQuest database in which the college is the subject of the research
The College of The Bahamas’ Graduate Programmes and Collaborative Partnerships: 2003 to The Present
Get PDFThis article provides a brief overview of the College of The Bahamas’ graduate degree offerings since the establishment of the Office of Graduate Programmes in 2003. It maps the various articulation agreements, Memoranda of Understanding, and collaborations that the College has entered into with universities in North America, Great Britain and elsewhere, to facilitate a range of graduate degree programmes in diverse disciplines, such as Health Care Administration, Reading, Library and Information Science, Early Childhood and Elementary Teaching, School Counselling, and Business Administration, among others. The Office of Graduate Studies acknowledges the important connection between graduate studies and the College’s research agenda and seeks to bring coherence to programme development and the research initiatives of the institution
The Lynden Pindling Exhibit: the Man, the Dream, the Moment
Get PDFThe Sir Lynden O. Pindling Room at the Harry C. Moore Library and Information Centre of The College of The Bahamas contains an exhibit of over 260 items, including personal effects, gifts, gowns, photographs, speeches and publications. The items included in this special exhibit space are resources that scholars, students and the public may use to research the legacy of the former prime minister and, by extension, the history of The Bahamas
Educating Nurses at The College of The Bahamas
Get PDFIn the first decade following Bahamian Independence in 1973, registered nurse education transformed from a professional training programme offered by the Ministry of Health’s Department of Nursing Education into an academic discipline offered at The College of The Bahamas. The College of The Bahamas began offering an Associate of Arts degree in Nursing in the early 80s, with its first class graduating at the 1986/87 commencement. The diploma and degree programmes operated in tandem, sharing a campus until the Ministry of Health nursing diploma programme was phased out. Its last graduation ceremony was held in 1993. The nursing programme offered by COB evolved from an Associate of Arts to an Associate of Science in Nursing degree and later, in the 2000s, to a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. This paper will trace the development of nurse education programmes in the Bahamas from their beginnings to date, highlighting the milestones and achievements
Forty Years of Development: Library Services at the College of The Bahamas
Get PDFFrom its establishment in 1974, administrators of the College of The Bahamas have taken the provision of library services seriously, realizing that any tertiary-level institution requires a strong library collection to assure its credibility as an academic institution. The library system of The College of The Bahamas consists of three libraries: the Harry C. Moore Library and Information Centre on the Oakes Field Campus, the Hilda Bowen Library on the Grosvenor Close Campus and the Northern Campus Library on the Freeport, Grand Bahama Campus as well as a small resource centre at the facility on Exuma. These libraries house collections of materials – books, journals, audio-visual resources and microfilm, as well as provide access to collections of electronic resources needed to support academic programs and research at the College. The Harry C. Moore Library and Information Centre also houses the Bahamian Special Collection, the College Archives as well as several special exhibition spaces
The Gerace Research Center, San Salvador, Bahamas, 1971-2007
Get PDFThe Gerace Research Center on San Salvador is the College of The Bahamas’s center for the study of archaeology, biology, geology and the marine sciences. Founded on an abandoned United States naval base in 1971, the field station served as a point of convergence for scientists from a number of academic institutions, and became an institute of COB in 2001. The Center offers courses in archaeology, tropical botany, ornithology, oceanography, marine biology, and geology at the undergraduate, graduate, and post-doctorate levels and has produced well respected research that has been shared with fellow scientists, government agencies, and the Bahamian community through publications in scholarly journals; participation in and hosting of research conferences and symposia; and the production of field guides, as well as local and regional resources. Through the facilitation of field research for students and scientists from around the world, the Gerace Research Center continues to make a substantial contribution to the ecological, archaeological, and geological sciences and to the preservation of Bahamian ecosystems
Nervous Shock: Time and Space
Get PDFLiability for psychiatric injury, also known as nervous shock, may pose several challenges when considered as an aspect of personal injury. Within the context of Bahamian tort law, it is an emerging area, which so far has been dealt with only briefly. Several questions arise when assessing nervous shock, such as determining whether a defendant is liable and whether the plaintiff should be awarded damages. In The Bahamas the approach has been similar to that in other jurisdictions such as England and other Commonwealth states. In these jurisdictions the issue has been whether the cause of the psychiatric injury was reasonably foreseeable, especially where the claimant did not suffer any physical injury or was not directly involved in the accident. This article reflects on The Bahamas’ approach to nervous shock, the correlation of “time and space,” where the claimant is said to have witnessed the injury: it will present a discussion of the current understanding of nervous shock and whether it constitutes an appropriate claim