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Laura Ramoutar selected as UWI Open Campus Class of 2021 Valedictorian

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Mrs Laura Ramoutar, 2021 Valedictorian, The UWI Open Campus. (Image courtesy The UWI)

Mrs Laura Ramoutar, 2021 Valedictorian, The UWI Open Campus. (Image courtesy The UWI)

Winston Garth Murrell

The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies has an­nounced that Bach­e­lor of Ed­u­ca­tion stu­dent, Lau­ra Ra­moutar will rep­re­sent the grad­u­at­ing class of 2021. Lau­ra Ra­moutar ob­tained First Class Ho­n­ours in Ear­ly Child­hood De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Stud­ies. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease from the UWI:

This Sat­ur­day, Oc­to­ber 16, when The Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (The UWI) Open Cam­pus hosts its vir­tu­al grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny, Bach­e­lor of Ed­u­ca­tion stu­dent, Lau­ra Ra­moutar will rep­re­sent the grad­u­at­ing class of 2021—a to­tal of 877— as its Vale­dic­to­ri­an.

Mrs Lau­ra Ra­moutar com­plet­ed her stud­ies at The UWI Open Cam­pus Coun­try Site in St Au­gus­tine, Trinidad and To­ba­go. Hav­ing sat­is­fied the re­quire­ments for the award of the Bach­e­lor of Ed­u­ca­tion in Ear­ly Child­hood De­vel­op­ment and Fam­i­ly Stud­ies, she ob­tained First Class Ho­n­ours, and emerged as Vale­dic­to­ri­an, fol­low­ing a rig­or­ous se­lec­tion process.

Lau­ra’s pas­sion for ed­u­ca­tion is life­long. From as ear­ly as her teenag­er years, her pro­fes­sion­al goal was to be­come a pri­ma­ry school teacher. These am­bi­tions were tem­porar­i­ly de­layed as she pur­sued moth­er­hood and fo­cused on nur­tur­ing her chil­dren holis­ti­cal­ly. “From my child­hood, I man­i­fest­ed an un­wa­ver­ing and fiery pas­sion for teach­ing and learn­ing, com­bined with a de­sire to be of ser­vice to oth­ers,” she ex­plained.

When the youngest of Lau­ra’s three chil­dren en­tered pre-school, de­ter­mi­na­tion guid­ed her to­wards em­ploy­ment as a preschool teacher. In­creas­ing­ly mo­ti­vat­ed to ful­fil her life­long am­bi­tion, in 2018, Lau­ra ap­plied to The UWI Open Cam­pus to read for her de­gree. Si­mul­ta­ne­ous­ly, she com­plet­ed sev­er­al short cours­es at a lo­cal in­sti­tute in Trinidad and To­ba­go in or­der to en­hance her teach­ing com­pe­ten­cy. Cur­rent­ly, she sup­ports the learn­ing and de­vel­op­ment of ap­prox­i­mate­ly 70 chil­dren through an on­line tu­tor­ing ser­vice.

Hav­ing suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed her un­der­grad­u­ate de­gree with the Open Cam­pus, Lau­ra’s goal is to se­cure a teach­ing po­si­tion in a pub­lic school as well as to pur­sue a Mas­ter’s De­gree in In­clu­sive and Spe­cial Ed­u­ca­tion.

“Look­ing at my off­spring in­spires me to per­se­vere on my quest to cre­ate op­por­tu­ni­ties for the suc­cess of chil­dren in my coun­try,” Lau­ra said. She in­tends to con­tin­ue pur­su­ing per­son­al de­vel­op­ment with the aim of pos­i­tive­ly in­flu­enc­ing the ed­u­ca­tion sec­tor and per­sist­ing in ser­vice to peo­ple.  “I con­tin­ue work­ing to­wards in­creas­ing the qual­i­ty of life of oth­ers and guid­ing all of my chil­dren to­wards be­com­ing the best ver­sion of them­selves,” the 2021 Vale­dic­to­ri­an stat­ed.

The UWI Open Cam­pus is proud that Lau­ra chose the Cam­pus to ful­fil her life­long dreams and salute her on this sig­nif­i­cant aca­d­e­m­ic ac­com­plish­ment.  As is cus­tom­ary, Lau­ra will de­liv­er the Vale­dic­to­ry Speech at the Grad­u­a­tion Cer­e­mo­ny on be­half of her fel­low grad­u­ates from across the re­gion on Sat­ur­day Oc­to­ber 16, 2021. Well-wish­ers across the world can tune in to be part of the vir­tu­al Open Cam­pus grad­u­a­tion cel­e­bra­tion via www.uwitv.org, UWItv’s chan­nels on Flow EVO or on Face­book live from 4:00 p.m. (East­ern Caribbean/AST) | 3:00 p.m. (Ja­maica/EST).


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