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Leo-Rhynie assumed the post of Pro Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate
Studies at the University of the West Indies (UWI) on August
1, 2002, following her tenure as Deputy Principal of the Mona
campus since 1996. Prior to this, she served as Professor
and Regional Coordinator of the UWI’s Centre for Gender
and Development Studies (1992 –1996), Executive Director
of the Institute of Management and Production (1987 –
1992), a Research Fellow then Senior Lecturer in Educational
Psychology in the Faculty of Education, UWI (1977 –
1987), and a secondary school science teacher in Jamaica (1968
–1977) and England (1964 – 1967).
Dr. Leo-Rhynie has published extensively in the areas of
education, training, and gender concerns, and she has successfully
supervised more than 50 students pursuing Masters’ and
doctoral degrees in the areas of education and gender and
development, has directed research and evaluation projects
in education for government and international agencies, and
has also successfully undertaken consultancy assignments across
the Caribbean region.
In 1992-1993 she served as a Member of the Jamaica National
Task Force on Crime, chaired by Hon. Justice Lensley Wolfe,
and in 1993 -1994, she was co-chair of the National Preparatory
Commission which prepared Jamaica’s Report on the Status
of Women for the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing,
China. Dr Leo-Rhynie was appointed to the Privy Council of
Jamaica in September 1996, and was awarded the national honour
of Commander of the Order of Distinction (Officer class) in
2000.
Dr. Leo-Rhynie has chaired the Dudley Grant Memorial Trust,
which advocates on behalf of early childhood education in
Jamaica, for the past fifteen years; and she is a member of
Council of the University of Technology, Jamaica, as well
as of the governing Boards of the University Hospital of the
West Indies, United Way of Jamaica, the Grace, Kennedy Foundation
and the ICWI Group Foundation.
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Diversity, Liberalization and competition in tertiary and
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