UWI researchers win top education prize

STAFF WRITER

September 12, 2026

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2026 Laureates for the Yidan Prize for Education Development (l-r) Professor Susan P. Walker, Emeritus Professor of Nutrition, Caribbean Institute for Health Research (CAIHR), UWI; Professor Sally Grantham-McGregor, University College London; and Dr Susan M. Chang-Lopez, Senior Lecturer at CAIHR, UWI.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Sept 12, CMC – Two University of the West Indies (The UWI) researchers have won the 2026 Yidan Prize for Education Development for their work on Reach Up, an early childhood programme now used in more than 21 countries.

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