Adjudication Panel

Pan-Commonwealth Adjudication Panel for Education Good Practice Awards 2009

A team of leading academics and educators has been appointed to the adjudication panel for selection of finalists for the second round of the Commonwealth Education Good Practice Award 2009.

The panel which is chaired by Malaysia’s Secretary General of Education, Tan Sri Dr. Zulkarnain Awang, will meet in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in June prior to the holding of the 17th Conference of Commonwealth Education Ministers (17CCEM).

Professor of Law at Warwick University, Shaheen Sardar Ali of Pakistan is one of the panellists who will join the following team for the selection of finalists:

Her Excellency, Mrs. Jean Kekedo, Papua New Guinea High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Israel, Zimbabwe and Egypt and her country’s representative on the Working Group on Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment, has been Special Advisor to PNGs Prime Minister for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings since 1979 and has led PNG delegations to the UN General Assembly, New York. She has been Chairperson of the Regional Director-Generals' of Civil Aviation Conference and has led her country’s delegation to the International Timber Trading Organisation Conference in Colombia, South America.

Professor Michael J. Kelly, Jesuit priest and internationally recognised expert in the area of HIV/AIDS and Education is a Zambian national born in Ireland. He was Professor of Education, Dean of the Faculty of Education, and Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Zambia between 1975 and 2002.

Professor Elsa Leo-Rhynie, CD, PhD former Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies' (UWI) Mona Campus was named Professor Emerita by the UWI in 2007. Her career in education has included Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in the UWI School of Education, Professor of Gender and Development Studies and Executive Director of the Institute of Management & Production (IMP), now part of the University College of the Caribbean.

Ms. Anastasia Nakkazi, a former Headmistress of Nabisunsa Girls Senior Secondary School and Mount St. Mary’s Namagunga Girls Secondary School in Uganda worked as a senior civil servant in the Ugandan public service prior to being appointed Secretary General of the Uganda National Commission for UNESCO between 1981 and 2002.

Mr. Duncan Hindle is Director-General of Education in the Department of Education, South Africa and was South Africa’s representative on the Working group on Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment. His career which has spanned teaching and university lecturing has included positions as Chief Director of Human Resource Planning and Deputy Director-General, Planning and Monitoring in the Department of Education, South Africa.. Mr. Hindle, the first Adjudication Panel Chair for the Education Good Practice Awards (2006) is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Natal, Faculty of Humanities.

Professor Kabiru Isyaku, OON MNI, currently Professor of Education at Kaduna State University in Nigeria was a former Director of academic programmes at the National Commission for Colleges of Education 1990 – 1998 and Executive Secretary of the institution from 1998 – 2007. Nigeria’s representative on the Working Group on Commonwealth Teacher Recruitment, he is also the recipient of many national awards and a member of the Nigerian Academy of Education (NAE)