Faculty - Ruari MacLeod
Ruari (Rory) MacLeod
B.A., M.Sc., M.Ed., Ph.D
universities and colleges:
The University of Exeter (UK), Charles Sturt University (Australia),
Daemen College (USA), Western University (Canada)
background:
Mr. MacLeod’s educational attainments include Western University (CA), Daemen College (USA), Charles Sturt University (Aus) and The University of Exeter (UK). He has been teaching since 1997 as an English language teacher in Tokyo, Japan, until 2006. In 2008, he began working as an English faculty member at the Higher Colleges of Technology in Dubai. He left in 2014 to work as an assistant professor at the Community College of Qatar. In 2019, he returned to Toronto and has been working for Laureate College as an IELTS instructor and the director of the IELTS program since then.
Academic beliefs:
Mr. MacLeod believes that education has enormous practical value as a means for students to better their lives in measurable ways. It can also help people develop in less quantifiable areas; however, there are so many things that we can learn from each other and become better people in the process. “I don’t think education’s importance can be overstated – it is one of the most important things we can do as people.”
