October 2013


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Open Campus Valedictorian

A Trinidadian, Nikishia Greenidge was the 2013 Valedictorian at the Graduation ceremony of The UWI Open Campus on October 12.

A former student of Vessigny Secondary School in Trinidad, where she now teaches, 33-year-old Nikishia was honoured for excellence in Additional Mathematics and Mathematics, the subjects she loves most, and which she has taught for 12 years. She also offers free extra classes and volunteers at the National Centre for Persons with Disabilities. As a paraplegic, Nikishia has faced several challenges, but she prefers that those who see her disability in the context of what she should not be able to do, instead seek to understand better the social and physical limitations and boundaries that exist, and design methods to circumvent these difficulties.

She had acquired a BSc degree in Information Systems and Management in 2004 as an external student of the University of London, and then, to further her interest in Mathematics Education, she enrolled in 2009 with the UWI Open Campus to read for the online BEd Degree in Secondary Mathematics Education, which she completed this year with First Class Honours. She has already begun a MSc degree programme in Mathematics at the St. Augustine Campus, and plans to read for the postgraduate diploma in Instructional Design with the UWI Open Campus.