President’s Quarterly Progress Report: October to December 2009

Abstract

Taking advantage of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the regional representative for the Caribbean on COL’s Board, Professor Clement Sankat, organised a highly successful stakeholder forum on November 24, 2009 for Trinidad & Tobago at the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies, Port of Spain (where he is Principal). One hundred government and institutional representatives from Trinidad and Tobago were joined by COL’s Chair, His Excellency The Honourable Burchell Whiteman; Director of Knowledge Management and Information Technology, Paul West and me for this half-day meeting. An excellent series of videos tracing the history of open and distance learning in Trinidad & Tobago and COL’s involvement will be a lasting legacy of the event.