Dr. Didacus Jules – Registrar

Dr. Didacus Jules, a St Lucian national, was appointed Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) effective from April 2, 2008.  Dr Jules has a wide range of experience in Management having worked as a Management Consultant, Arthur Lok-Jack-School of Business, University of the West Indies, St Augustine; Vice President of Human Resources, Cable and Wireless; the Inter-Regional Coordinator, International Literacy Support Service (ILSS); and Resident Consultant, National Research and Development Foundation, St Lucia.

Dr. Jules has also contributed significantly to Education in the Caribbean when he worked as Permanent Secretary – Education and Human Resource Development, Ministry of Education, Human Resource Development, Youth and Sports, Government of St Lucia; Permanent Secretary for Education and Culture/Chief Education Officer, People’s Revolutionary Government of Grenada; and also as Adult Education Organizer responsible for organizing the National Literacy Campaign in Grenada.

Dr. Jules is based at the CXC Headquarters Office in Barbados.

Mr. Glenroy Cumberbatch – Pro-Registrar

Mr. Glenroy Cumberbatch, a Barbados national, was appointed Pro-Registrar of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) effective from September 1, 2007.  Mr. Cumberbatch has a wide range of experience in education.  He started his professional career as a teacher in 1975 and moved to the Ministry of Education in 1991 as Education Officer with responsibility for Mathematics.  In this post, he assisted with the development of mathematics curricula, a remedial mathematics programme and the implementation of workshops for teachers.  After four years in this post he was appointed Senior Education Officer (Planning, Research and Development).  He served in this post for three years.  He was then promoted to the post of Deputy Chief Education Officer.

In his various positions in the Ministry of Education, Mr. Cumberbatch has contributed to the development and implementation of education policies and programmes in Barbados.  His responsibilities included budget preparation, coordination of activities in planning, Research and Development, Testing and Measurement and Management of Information Systems.  He was also directly involved in the supervision and management of schools, student services and teacher evaluation.  He served for a period as the CXC Local Registrar in Barbados.

Pro-Registrar, Mr. Cumberbatch is based at the CXC Western Zone office in Jamaica.

Mr. Anderson Marshall – Director of Corporate Services

Mr. Marshall joined the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) in 2002 as Senior Assistant Registrar – Finance.

He has a wide and varied background having worked with the Inland Revenue Department in Barbados as a Tax Inspector, the accounting firm of Ernst and Young as an Audit and Financial Services Senior, and the off-shore financial services sector in Barbados and Bermuda specializing in the management of captive insurance companies for Fortune 500 companies.

Mr. Marshall is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA), Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Barbados, a member of the Insurance Institute of Barbados and holds an MBA in Finance from Heriot Watt University.  He is also a graduate of the Insurance Institute of Canada – Chartered Insurance Professional (CIP).

Dr. Yolande Wright – Senior Assistant Registrar

Dr. Yolande Wright is the Senior Assistant Registrar of Quality Assurance of the Caribbean Examinations Council for the Measurement and Evaluation Division.  She was educated at the University of the West Indies and the University of Manchester where she gained her PhD. Dr Wright joined the staff of the Caribbean Examinations Council as Senior Assistant Registrar of the Measurement and Evaluation Division on 01 December, 2001.

Dr. Wright has acquired skills which focus on conceptualizing and catalyzing major improvements in the development and the conduct of educational assessment in St Vincent and the Grenadines while as Senior Education Officer, Ministry of Education Women’s Affairs and Culture.  She was successful in developing, and successfully defending a proposal to constitute a Measurement and Evaluation Unit to co-ordinate the development of all Standardized internal assessments and the administration of large scale internal and external examinations.

Not only is Dr. Wright experienced in training educators, she also has firsthand experience in the lecture theater. This experience was gained at the University of Manchester and the University of the West Indies - Cave Hill Campus where she gave instruction in the Technology of Educational Measurement and its Social Consequences’ and ‘Introduction to Educational Measurement’.   She has more than five years experience as a lecturer at the University of Manchester and the University of the West Indies - Cave Hill Campus.  Her courses have included ‘Technology of Educational Measurement and its Social Consequences’ and ‘Introduction to Educational Measurement’.

She has participated in educational initiatives and projects managed by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, the Education Reform Unit of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), several Ministries of Education in the Caribbean, the General Nursing Council of St Vincent and the Grenadines, and the University of Manchester, UK.

Dr. Wright is a member of several professional organizations including the National Council on Measurement in Education and the American Educational Research Association. Her professional interests include Statistical Techniques for Monitoring Instructional Effectiveness, Item Banking and Quality Assurance. the integration of testing and instruction, formative and continuous assessment, the design of assessment systems.

Dr. Gordon Harewood - Senior Assistant Registrar

Dr. Gordon Harewood, Senior Assistant Registrar in the Examinations Development and Production Division, joined the Caribbean Examinations Council on 01 March 1990 as an Assistant Registrar in the Measurement and Evaluation Division and took up his current post on June 01 2007. As the Senior Assistant Registrar for Production, he is responsible for the planning and coordination of the production, printing and delivery of the Council’s examination papers and related materials.

Dr. Harewood was educated at the University of Guyana where he gained his Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Spanish and English Literatures, his post-graduate Diploma in Education, and his Master of Education degree, majoring in Educational Measurement and Evaluation.  In 1985 he gained his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Harewood has worked closely with Examining Committees and Subject Panels in Caribbean History, Social Studies, Geography and Religious Education at the CSEC level and History and Sociology at the CAPE. He has also conducted training in educational assessment for educators at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels in several countries of the region. Extra-regionally, Dr. Harewood has worked as a Program Director at Professional Examination Service in New York, where he managed licensure and certification programmes for practitioners in the health sciences and human resource management.

Mrs. Susan Giles - Senior Assistant Registrar

Mrs. Susan Giles, Senior Assistant Registrar in charge of the Examinations Administration Division, has worked for most of her tenure at CXC in this area and has considerable experience in the conduct of public examinations.  She joined the Council in 1981 and was appointed to her current post in January 2009.

Mrs. Giles assisted in the development of most of the existing procedures and regulations for the Division and has managed several operations in relation to the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) and Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) for the region; and national examinations for two CXC Participating Territories. She has also managed the Council’s marking activities in Trinidad & Tobago for nine years. As Head of Division, she has responsibility for Candidate Admissions, Examining Personnel Recruitment and Logistics, Examination Materials Delivery Services, Examination Security, Data-Processing and Examination Results Reporting.

Mrs. Giles was educated at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus and the University of Surrey’s European Management School.