There will be guest lecturers for all courses offered at the Academy. These lecturers will be experts in their particular fields with a wealth of practical experience. Foreign examiners often lament students' inability to apply principles to a given factual matrix. This is evidenced in low scores on the test papers.

Even further, many students with high test scores fail to impress employers due to the students' failure to translate information gained at the academic level to its implementation in the practical arena.

The frequent use of common local examples is a tool that will enable students to make the necessary transition and thus all stakeholders would benefit from the knowledge gained by those who are successful in their respective programme of study.

Professor Nigel Spence (UOL) - Second Row Middle; Suzanne Seepersad

(ATS) - Second Row Second From Left, along with ATS students for

UOL BSc Geography and Environment.