High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Vena Jules is an educator from Trinidad and Tobago. She is the new Senior Programme Executive for Curriculum Development at the Catholic Religious Education Development Institute (CREDI) (2009). A CIDA scholar and graduate of Queens University, Canada (BSc Hons. Geography and Master of Education), Dr. Jules obtained her Ph.D. at the University of the West Indies. Prior to her CREDI appointment, she was a Senior Lecturer at the School of Education of the University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus, where she served from 1983 to 2008. In 2004, she was one of four lecturers who was awarded the Guardian Life of the Caribbean Premium Teacher Award for excellence in teaching at the University of the West Indies. Hers is an extensive career of commitment, spanning some 48 years at all levels of the education system in Trinidad and Tobago.