lswiltshire asks "Have you ever been to ST V & the Grenadines James?" - Can't say that I have. It is on my travel list for the future. Everywhere has a bit of crime. However, if I remember it was students being raped on St V that was the deciding factor for SGU to leave along with a very serious drug war issue that is still on going there.

Rok - other than the article in the paper, about the charter I have no direct proof. I don't remember seeing a charter on SGU's website last time I looked at it. I did find one line that references their founding and partnership with the island. However, if you do a web search on the partners behind this school, you will find at least one of the partners on linkedin has a very good medical business going.

lswiltshire - without seeing their business plan - we don't know which business model they are picking to use. Many of the start up schools are using the shoestring/bootstap finance method (high rate of failure). Others have used the build it and they will come method. We can only hope they are using a sensible business plan with money, staff and a good infrastructure to get it going. Then get state approvals like AUA did in three or four years. We will have to just wait and see.

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