EDITOR’S NOTE: In January, #EduCaribbean featured Caribbean educators in our edition 2021-01-14. This newsletter re-visits this subject. Three locations are covered, namely: The Bahamas, Barbados, and Trinidad. Three of the five articles are from The Bahamas and taken from the Bahamas Weekly. The two remaining locations have one article apiece.
Our headline reads: “Academic Dean, The Bahamas Technical & Vocational Institute”. This summer, the Global Forum for Education and Learning (GFEL) will confer the Excellence in Education Award on Dr. Pleshette McPhee — Academic Dean at the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI).
With regard to the University of The Bahamas (UB), their Board of Trustees has releasing a leadership profile for a new president. And, their Executive Vice President — Professor Sarim Al-Zubaidy, PhD — has been awarded the 2021 Global Engineering Humanitarian Award by Colorado Boulder’s Mortenson Center in Global Engineering.
Otherwise, teachers in Barbados have been requesting assistance from their Ministry of Education’s to cope with the pandemic and to administer online learning. While in Trinidad, independent senator and psychiatrist — Dr. Varma Deyalsingh — warned of new challenges COVID-19 has created for educators.