Dr Mairette Newman joined COL as Education Specialist: Virtual University for Small States of the Commonwealth (VUSSC) in February 2018. Prior to joining COL, she was Coordinator of the Graduate Studies Unit in the School of Education at University of West Indies (UWI) in Jamaica. She has worked extensively in the area of tertiary education in the Caribbean, especially in designing, facilitating and evaluating a range of learning experiences.
Dr Newman holds a PhD (Educational Leadership) from Griffith University, Australia, MEd (Teacher Education) from UWI, and a BA (English and German) from University College Dublin, Ireland.
