| From 1999 to 2005, he served at Kigali Institute
of Education (KIE) successively as Public Relations Officer,
Head of Communication Skills Department, and Director of the
Center for Continuous Studies (CCE). He studied at Warwick University,
UK; in 2002 was awarded a MA in Teaching English for Specific
Purposes, and registered for a PhD in Lexicography. He is currently
conducting a synergetic project of Trilingual Lexicon in English-French-Kinyarwanda,
with KIE colleagues; this is part of a trilingual dictionary
project including KIST, KIE, Warwick, the University of Pretoria
and the University of Dar-es-Salaam. He has published two academic
reviews, co-edited lexicons, textbooks and articles, some much
referred to in international campains. From 1980 to 1981, he
attended Translation and Interpretation modules at the Fédération
Polytechnique de Lille, France, and was granted a BA in English
Language and Literature at the University of Burundi in 1985.
Under J.B. Rusine leadership, KLC initiated consultations
with other Higher Learning Institutions, the Ministry of Education,
the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) and Parliament,
for Harmonizing, Improving and Implementing the national policy
of language teaching, especially at higher education level.
He contributed to the setting up of the NCHE by translating
about 70% of related documents from consultants and performing
the duties of a secretary in the Rectors’ Workshop for
creating this Council. He also actively took part in the setting
up of Rwanda Media Training Center; and remains an asset for
KIST organized seminars, workshops and conferences.
Skilled in communication, in translation, in Study Skills,
Life Skills and in situation management, Mr JB Rusine, has
been solicited separately and jointly by international organizations
since 1995. He has worked for UNESCO, UNICEF, UNFPA, PACFA,
BK, Forum of Women Direct, respectively in charge of education,
public relations, information, social project management,
and translation-interpretation. Sensitive to horizontal and
vertical communication, he founded KIE Staff Association (KIE)
and chaired the Forum of Public University Staff Associations
(2005-2006).
He has often offered his services to the Rwandan community
in the areas education, justice and reconciliation, human
rights and social welfare. He has successively and successfully
chaired two Committees of Mediators/Reconcilers (‘Abunzi’)
since 2005. The primary school he founded with fellows in
2001 (APAPEC-IREBERO) is reputed for high pedagogic performance
and for being at the forefront of implementing national education
policies : English as the medium of instruction, One Child
One Laptop.
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