VCS Research

Professor Vicente Sinining is the founder and Managing Director of VCS Research Limited, established and incorporated in Washington, DC, USA in 1996 as a nonprofit research and education consultancy organization. It is registered at Rwanda Development Board in 2018 for its operation in East Africa. He is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Education of the University of Technology and Arts of Byumba. (UTAB) in Rwanda.

He is a Professional Educator since 1988 and has taught in the Philippines (8 years ), United States (18 years ), Pacific Islands (2 years ), Africa (7 years ), Eastern Europe (as a Visiting Professor for 7 years ). He served as the research supervisor for Master and PhD students since 1996. Presently,he actively serves as an external reviewer for PhD Thesis at various universities in Asia and in Eastern Europe.

Professor Sinining is a PhD Research Supervisor and External Reviewer at Intake Group Limited - an Education Consultancy company based in Kigali, Rwanda, representing fully-accredited universities (for Online Distance Learning, or On-Campus Study in Mexico, Malaysia, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, India, Canada, USA, UK, Switzerland, UAE, Norway, Sweden, Australia, China, Singapore, and South Korea. Intake is the authorized invigilation center for ODL students in the Master and PhD level who are based in East Africa. He is also a Visiting Professor in Eastern Europe since 2016.

He serves as a consultant and senior adviser of Light Publications Limited (Light Magazine ) since 2016. Light Magazine is a local Rwandan company with the main purpose of publishing journals, magazines, newspapers, video documentaries, and other documentation and publishing activities. It publishes a monthly magazine called Light Magazine. It is one of the very few publication companies in Rwanda that consistently published a monthly issue since 2016. It is duly registered at Rwanda Media Council (RMC ), Rwanda Regulatory Board (RGB ), and Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA ). The company was established by Mr. Ernest Nyetera, a former MBA student of Professor Sinining. Presently, Prof. Sinining also serves as the senior adviser of MNK Digital Group Limited, a private limited Company incorporated in Rwanda. MNK offers high quality and affordable Cooperative Management System software to cooperatives, enabling all beneficiaries gain access to the use of the software at an affordable cost.

Professor Sinining served in various capacity as University Vice-Chancellor and Principal, Vice-President, Provost, Dean of Graduate School, and Professor of Education, Management, Leadership, and Research Methods for over ten years. He came to Rwanda in 2016 and served as Vice -Chancellor and Professor of Education and Management at Mahatma Gandhi University. In 2018, MGUR closed and he was appointed as University Coordinator and Professor at Christian University of Rwanda. Professor Sinining served for eight years as a Senior Adviser and accredited diplomat to select Permanent Missions to the United Nations in New York, USA with a diplomatic rank of Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs. He continues to serve remotely as a Senior Adviser to select Heads of State and Government of Small Island Developng States at the United Nations.

Professor Sinining holds a BS degree in Chemical engineering from the Philippines; BS Degree in Computer Science, Master's degree in Education, PhD in Education in the United States; PhD in Management in Lithuania; and a Post-Doctorate in Management in the Netherlands. He was a Designated Scholar at the prestigious Columbia University in New York, USA and a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) in New York, USA. In 1994, he was recognized as one of outstanding American educators by Marqui's Who's Who in the United States. He has been a Research supervisor of Master and PhD candidates since 1996; and a program council member of the International Scientific Journal, Cywilizacja i Polityka, University of Gidansk, Poland. Professor Sinining is a Certified Research Professor in Eastern Europe. He is also a Certified Math and Computer Science Teacher in the United States and in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.

Professor Sinining is from the Philippines and lives in Rwanda since 2016.

Professor Sinining can be reached via email at info@vcsresearch.org.

Prof. Sinining with President Kessai H. Note of the Republic of the Marshall Islands and Ambassador Vinci Clodumar of the Republic of Nauru.