<P> The university was founded in 1948 , on the recommendation of the Asquith Commission through its sub-committee on the West Indies chaired by Sir James Irvine . The Asquith Commission had been established in 1943 to review the provision of higher education in the British colonies . Initially in a special relationship with the University of London , the then University College of the West Indies ( UCWI ) was seated at Mona , about five miles from Kingston , Jamaica . The university was based at a camp used by evacuated Gibraltarians during the war . </P>
<P> The university was founded in 1948 , on the recommendation of the Asquith Commission through its sub-committee on the West Indies chaired by Sir James Irvine . The Asquith Commission had been established in 1943 to review the provision of higher education in the British colonies . Initially in a special relationship with the University of London , the then University College of the West Indies ( UCWI ) was seated at Mona , about five miles from Kingston , Jamaica . The university was based at a camp used by evacuated Gibraltarians during the war . </P>
when was the university of the west indies established
when was the university of the west indies established
1948
1948