Vashti Singh was awarded a research scholarship by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Government of India, and graduated with a Ph.D. in Policy Reforms and Comparative Higher Education from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India in 2006. She currently fills the position of a Senior Lecturer in the Departments of Research and Graduate Studies and Curriculum and Instruction in the Faculty of Education and Humanities, University of Guyana. Vashti Singh has presented her research on the theme of comparative perspectives in education in several diasporic countries including Trinidad, Suriname, Mauritius, South Africa, and India. She serves as Chairperson of the Education Committee in the Oropouche East Constituency Office, Trinidad and Tobago.