STAFF NEWS

COL President Sir John Daniel has been appointed to the Advisory Board of the Whitney International University System. Whitney is the first global university focused on students from developing countries. Partnering with universities in countries around the world, Whitney delivers a blended learning experience. Sir John joins a distinguished international group of education and business leaders on the Advisory Board.

 

Sir John has also accepted the role of Patron of WikiEducator, a collaborative online project focused on developing free content for eLearning. 

 

The European Distance and E-learning Network (EDEN) Secretariat has named Sir John an EDEN Senior Fellow in recognition of his contribution to the development of open, distance and eLearning in Europe. The award was announced at the EDEN 2007 Annual Conference in Naples, Italy in June 2007.

 

Sir John was recently recognised with an honorary degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He received the title Doctor of Letters at the Centre for Continuing Education's spring convocation ceremony.

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http://www.wikieducator.org/

http://www.eden-online.org/

 

Dr. Tanyss Munro has joined COL as Education Specialist, Governance. She is assisting Commonwealth member countries in developing and adapting open and distance learning materials and training to strengthen democracy and good governance through the public sector, the educational system and non-governmental organisations (NGOs).

 

Dr. Munro has worked to increase access and improve quality of education and governance in remote First Nations communities and organisations in Canada, and with extremely poor communities in South Asia, most recently in Bangladesh. In addition to serving as a school principal and regional superintendent, she has acted as a senior advisor to the Canadian government and worked to achieve treaties for indigenous peoples in Canada. Dr. Munro holds a Ph.D. in International Education.

www.col.org/tmunro 

 

 

Mr. Rod Tyrer returned to the UK's Department for International Development in March when his secondment to COL ended. On joining in 2003, he focused on helping COL adopt the precepts and practices of results-based management. After his appointment as Programme Director in 2004, he coordinated the preparation of the 2006-2009 Plan, the most thorough exercise of its type COL had ever undertaken. His legacy to COL is a programme firmly aimed at development goals set within a contemporary logic model focused on outputs, outcomes and impacts, with performance indicators to match. The function of Programme Director has now been merged with that of Vice President.

 

 

NEW VP FOR WORLD BANK

Ms. Obiageli Ezekwesili has been appointed a Vice President of the World Bank. Most recently Nigeria's Minister of Education, Ms. Ezekwesili will lead the Bank's Africa operations, which lend about US$4.7 billion per year to the continent. As Minister of Education, she led reform of Nigeria's education system.