The University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) will host the first 2014 annual meeting of the International Association of University President's (IAUP) in Montego Bay, Jamaica from 30 January – 1 February 2014.The high-level three-day meeting will provide a forum for higher education leaders and institutions from around the world to identify and discuss the major issues and challenges facing higher education today within a global and cross-cultural context.

The IAUP, which is one of the founding partners of UNAI, is an association of university chief executive officers – presidents, rectors, vice chancellors and chancellors from higher education institutions around the world. Its primary purposes are to provide a worldwide vision of higher education; strengthen the international mission and quality of higher education throughout the world; promote academic exchange and collaboration and to promote networking and collaboration between leaders of universities, supporting sustainable development in a context of global competency.

Commenting on the significance of Jamaica's hosting of this international meeting, Prof. the Hon. Errol Morrison, OJ, President, UTech notes that it is very important for our country to be part of the dialogue on higher education in the global context, adding that it is irrefutable that higher education is what is needed to drive change and economic transformation.

For more information on the IAUP 2014 meeting, please visit the University of Technology, Jamaica (UTech) website at http://www.utech.edu.jm/IAUP/