During this year, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College is featuring weekly profiles of past students as part of its 20th anniversary celebrations.

Profile # 10

Wade Tobin, Principal of the BVI Seventh Day Adventist School, has served both as a teacher and an administrator in the education sector in the British Virgin Islands for 14 years since graduating from HLSCC in 1996 with the Associate Degree in Arts.

Wade started attending the College in 1991, by which time he was already a teacher at the Enis Adams Primary School. In all, he has accumulated some 20 years’ experience in education.

After graduating from the College in 1996, he went on to complete his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees at the University of the Virgin Islands. He graduated from UVI in 2001 with a Bachelor’s in Social Sciences/Secondary Teacher Preparation, and again in 2004 with a Master’s in Education Administration.

Usual Place of Residence: Sea Cows Bay, Tortola

Education History

BVI High School, 1994-1998

HLSCC, 1991-1996

UVI, 1998-2001 (Bachelor’s), and 2001-2004 (Master’s)

Employment History

Teacher (Class III), Enis Adams Primary School, 1990-1991

Teacher (Class IV), Althea Scatliffe Primary School, 1991-1993

Teacher (Primary V), Ivan Dawson Primary School, 1993-1997,

Year Head/Teacher (History and Social Studies), BVI High School, 2001-2007

Principal, BVI Seventh Day Adventist School, 2007 and continuing 
Thoughts about the College, its role, mission, programmes and future

The College is a dynamic institution that has impacted the British Virgin Islands in so many ways. Its innovative programmes have advanced the human resources of the territory.

One aspect, in particular, is the College classics, which are truly inspirational.

I wait with great enthusiasm, the day when the institution would be able to confer four-year degrees.

Thoughts about time spent at HLSCC, education received and impact on your life

I could never forget the classes at the back of the College bakery and on the second floor of the Omar Hodge Building and then eventually at the Paraquita Bay Campus.

I was so fortunate to sit at the feet of so many intellectual stalwarts of this illustrious territory, namely Dr. Karl Dawson, Mrs. Jennie Wheatley, Dr. Patricia Turnbull, Dr. Lucia Woods, Dr. John Wright, and Mrs. Jocelyn Rhymer, among others.

The training and experience I gained was dynamic, life changing and inspirational. It provided a base for my future endeavours. Students and lecturers learnt from each other and this made learning all the more impacting.

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