Kenneth Noyau spent ten years at the Mauritius College of the Air. He joined as Senior Tutor, English in 1972 and developed the first distance learning course written in Mauritius, by a Mauritian for Mauritians. His expertise in the teaching of the language was undoubtedly an asset. He also brought a pragmatic common sense about the real needs of the learners. He had the willpower to make things change within the system. The course he wrote was a runaway success with the schools.

Competence, integrity and innovation were to be the three qualities that we associated with him. Not only was he developing the first Mauritian correspondence course, he was also integrating radio lessons and television lessons into its teaching. Fifty private secondary schools were given transistor radios and television sets as part of the MCA ?package? for upgrading the level. Other components of this package were teacher training and school visits. All activities were carried out by MCA?s one man army for English language teaching. These were seminal years for the organisation. As a team, we could not but succeed in what we were doing. Kenneth went on to develop a partnership with the nascent Careers Guidance Service which John Pape and Freddy Sakir were starting. The first television series for Careers Guidance also goes to his credit.

Kenneth?s passion was cinema. He got the MCA to buy a 16 mm Arriflex which cost a small fortune and started the production of documentaries all over again. To Antoine Domaingue?s ?Peaks of Limuria? and ?And the Princess Came? he added ?La Charrette? : a socio-anthropologic cameo. His friendship with Max Egly, a stalwart of the French Educational television scene was instrumental in developing MCA?s long involvement with the production of local documentaries and led to Antoine Domaingue, Kessava Anenden, Donald Delorme, Paul Turcotte and Gaetan Essoo joining the team. When he left MCA to go to Haiti in 1982, Kenneth was discussing an integrated project in non-formal education with the French Aid Mission in Mauritius : ?Mother and Child Health? became the model for the development of non-formal education in Mauritius over the next decade. From 1974 to 1982 and as the first Mauritian Director of the Mauritius College of the Air, Kenneth was bringing change to the system from within. He set a series of challenges for himself and for the organisation. His legacy to us will be his will to innovate and to set ourselves challenges so that we can bring about sustainable improvements.